The dockers crowd at the entrance gate, and curse and turn away when the foreman does not give them a call.
The fact that the dockers have no courage about their employers may be largely the employers' fault.
To a docker making twenty shillings a week the difference of two shillings is not merely important, it is vital.
What would the dockers say if one of these establishments was instituted by the municipality for the loading and unloading of ships?
The foundation of the docker's union takes place, not in the communal arena of the public-house, but in the cocoa rooms near the docks.
The two groups both carry heavy loads, but the timber dockers commonly lift and carry in the erect posture and the general dockers habitually stoop to lift.
September 1893: 1), suggests its regular use by the dockers, as otherwise under capitalist economics it would have been converted into a public house to create or satisfy demand.
