0 the practice of continuing to work during a strike or taking the job of a worker who is involved in a strike: --
News broadcasts openly encouraged strikebreaking.
1 continuing to work during a strike, or taking the job of a worker who is involved in a strike: --
By that time, strikebreaking work had declined.
Unlike earlier waterfront strikes, longshoremen were prevented from picketing the docks to discourage strikebreaking, and claimed that they were going to go "en masse" to talk to the non-union workers.
Historically the practice of union strikebreaking has been a contentious issue in the union movement, and a point of contention between adherents of different union philosophies.
The mill owners disliked having the army overseeing their businesses, and the unions saw soldiers' labor as a form of strikebreaking.
Special constables, vigilante citizens organizations, and replacement workers were mobilized in strikebreaking throughout the country in this period.
The company's early strikebreaking actions were characterized by extreme violence.
In addition, their families and neighborhood supporters often surrounded and attacked the wagons of nonunion teamsters who were strikebreaking.
The government at both state and federal level responded by organising strikebreaking on a mass scale.
