Exempel på docker

• He was fifty-four and a broken-down docker. 

• 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.

• He said that bitterness in the docks was such as to make any reconciliation between the dockers and the employers impossible, as, so he said.

• Ships now spend less time in port, so port facilities must be used more intensively; fewer berths are needed, and therefore fewer dockers.

• Large numbers appear to be exempt—agricultural workers, coalminers, dockers, merchant seamen, policemen, firemen, and those employed in a managerial, professional, administrative, or executive capacity.

• Refunds not only in respect of seamen are recorded but also of dockers, share fishermen and others.

• Whatever else one may think of the episode last summer when five dockers' shop stewards went to gaol, no one can claim—or can they?

• What makes the dockers suspicious is that they are tired of being given assurances.

• The dockers are workers who have these fears that they will be oppressed.

• The loans are for severance pay and for helping, by compensation payments, dockers who have to leave the industry.

• There has been a spate of newspaper articles criticising the payment to dockers of subsidies in the form of supplementary benefits.

• I was one of those who were responsible for the great conflict in 1889, when the fight was for the dockers' tanner.

• One of the bases of the scheme was that all dockers in all ports should be treated alike.

• Those whiskies had been put there by dockers who were desperate to win the favour of the man who gave them their daily bread.