0 a person who works while others that they work with are on strike --
1 an employee who continues to work during a strike (= a period when workers refuse to work because of a disagreement with an employer): --
We regard this coal that is going to be imported as coal used for the purpose of blacklegging the miners of this country.
Gentlemen in clubland, gentlemen in business and commerce and in the professions know very well what is meant by a blackleg.
A blackleg has only to say that something exists in his mind in order to get a conviction again a picket.
I might retort that the party opposite seem to have a wonderful friendship for the blackleg.
Further, the police are being used to go round in the morning to rouse the blacklegs in time for work.
When the law was altered in 1927, it put us in the position that we dare not look at a blackleg.
There is, first, the difficulty about compulsion—compulsion of a blackleg minority.
It is the minority—the blackleg minority as we call them—who break the price.
