From the policemen's books alone I found a record for that week of six dockerskilled and eighty-seven injured.
Italian dockers rolled it across to this German ship, and on deck a Jap under-officer was bossing a Coolie crew.
I found long lines of dockers there--they were waiting for their pay.
On one dock I saw the dockers begin at seven in the morning and when I came back late in the evening the same men were there.
Out of the docks at nine in the morning I saw dockers pour in crowds.
One of the gang-planks was down at last and two hundred dockers came up on the run.
I sipped large schooners of beer at bars, listening to the burly dockers crowded close around me.
I saw the figures of dockers appear, more and more, I saw some of them drift to the docks.
Our Italian dockers sang at their work, and one day the dock was a bright-hued mass of strawberries and early Spring flowers landed by a boat from the South.
There came a strike, and once in the darkness of a cold November twilight I saw some dockers rush on a "scab," I heard the dull sickening thumps as they beat him.
I heard drunken sailors anddockers shouting in that vile saloon below.
I went into saloons full of dockers and stokers, and out of the low harsh hubbub there the word "strike!
It may have been wicked in the dockers to address God in this way, but it would have been more wicked in them not to think He could understand.
Perhaps nothing the dockers could do in the way of being violent could be more stupid and wicked than having all these sleek, beautiful, perfect people, twenty-six million of them, all expecting them not to be violent.
The fact that the dockers have no courage about their employers may be largely the employers' fault.
Perhaps what the dockers think will matter more a little later, too.
It would be strange indeed if one could not tolerate in dockers a little thing like this.
This may be a reason for not letting the world get entirely into their hands, but in the meantime we have every reason to be appreciative of the good the dockers are doing (so far as it goes) in hungering for themselves.
And on the practical side of what to do next in behalf of the dockers, or of what to let them do, I find myself facing two facts: First, the dockers are desperate.
I do not imagine God was sorry when He heard those fifty thousanddockers asking Him to strike Lord Devonport dead.
I would have but one objection to letting the dockers have their full way, and to letting the control of the situation be put into their hands.
But I have not lost all courage for thedockers who made it.
In my own quiet, gentle, implacable beauty of spirit, in my own ruthless wisdom on a full stomach, I do not deny that I do most sternly disapprove of the dockers and their violence.
The seamen in the rigging and workmen crowded round the hatchways might be the dockers boarded for a day's work on the loading, and only the thunder of the motors and crash of the sluicing torrent remain foreign to a normal ship-day.
There, with the troops away, an army of dockers can get to work to unload the store of their carriage from overseas.
The dockers are there, ready with gear and tackle to board and commence work.
Yet this is how the Dockers for thirty cinturies have burned th' human candle at both ends, yet wondered the light of life expired under their hands.
Attempt to foment strikes among the dockers (no convictions).
This strike spread from the dockers of Liverpool to London, from the dockers to the railway workers, and then to the teamsters and drivers of the larger cities, until a general tie-up of transportation was threatened.
During the Larkin crisis, when the transport workers and dockers went out on strike, she opened a "soup kitchen" at Liberty Hall.
The success of the Dockersis no measure of the power of combination among low-skilled labourers.
When the seamen won their strike, they refused to go back to work at several points, against the advice of their conservative officials, until the dockers received what they were striking for.
They were started with the seamen's strike in June, when the dockers in many places struck in sympathy, at the same time adding demands of their own.
Among them were telegrams from dockers at Middlesbrough, coopers at Birmingham, postmen in London, engineers at Newcastle, and cycle-makers at Coventry.
When the dockers in their thousands were back at work rejoicing at having won their sixpence an hour, Crooks lay at the point of death in the London Hospital in Whitechapel Road.
I shall be all right if you can only pull those poor dockers through.
The dockers crowd at the entrance gate, and curse and turn away when the foreman does not give them a call.
He became a leader of the fruit-porters, represented the dockers on the London Trades Council, and wrote trenchant articles for the labour journals.
The average of all common labourers, outside the dockers, is less than sixteen shillings per week, while the dockers average from eight to nine shillings.
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