During this period there existed a strike of longshoremen on the entire Pacific Coast, including the port of Everett.
Striking longshoremen from Seattle aided the shingle weavers on their picket line from time to time, and individual members of the I.
The two longshoremen who were with the doctor rowed toward the faint glimmer of red light, which could hardly be distinguished.
Hours later she was found by Doctor Lem and several longshoremen who had crossed the tossing waters of the bay to discover why the light was not throwing its warning beams out into the darkness.
Her grand-dad had already flung the door wide open and there Rilla saw several longshoremen in slickers and sou'westers, who were carrying lanterns.
Then order a few longshoremen to go aboard and hand the bundles from one to another and slide them down the plank to the men on the pier who will take them over to the sorters.
The officers can bring the good ship into port, and the sailors can make a handsome showing along the side as she comes up to the pier, and the longshoremen can stagger ashore laden with big bundles.
I want some longshoremen to help unload these boxes," said Helen, "and a set of sorters and a set of distributors.
I wish she could forget that money in the cellar wall and the hints Wat Gifford gave her about 'longshoremen coming up here from Plymouth some dark night to steal it.
Two longshoremen enter from the street, wearing their working aprons, the button of the union pinned conspicuously on the caps pulled sideways on their heads at an aggressive angle.
Glenister forced his lathered horse down to the beach and questioned the longshoremen who hung about.
As the hours passed and no boat put off, he tried to hire a crew, but the longshoremen spat wisely and shook their heads as they watched the surf.
The wind had blown for some days till the ocean beat heavily across the shallow bar, and now, as it became quieter, longshoremen were launching their craft, preparing to resume their traffic.
Singing longshoremen trundled burdens from the lighters and piled them on the heap, while yelling, cursing crowds fought over it all, selecting, sorting, loading.
In another half-hour the Fearsome was in full mourning, black longshoremen swarming over it and the edge of the dock, but the tug remained lashed alongside.
Carl worked harder over the longshoremen than over any other single labor difficulty, not excepting the eight-hour day in lumber.
The longshoremen interested Carl for the same reason that the migratory and the I.
He gripped me by the arm, and, ducking his head, fairly charged me past the 'longshoremen and out through the doorway into the street.
The 'longshoremen and loafers grinned and winked at one another, but forbore to interfere.
Two longshoremen sat on the curb ten feet away, and a man and a woman leaned against the door of a near-by warehouse.
Seventeen thousandlongshoremen and stevedores loitered in the water-front streets, with ten thousand sailors of all nationalities, whose ships were tied up.
The Association of Longshoremen and the Seamen's Union, for example, both claim jurisdiction over employees in marine warehouses.
Printers and certain of the more skilled trades find it easier to enforce their regulations than do the longshoremen and unions composed of casual foreign laborers.
Mother had to sit on a bench down there, with meal-sacks all around her; but Karsten and I and Ola Bugta and the other longshoremen on the wharf went up on Little Beacon to look for the steamboat.
Not a person on board even turned his head, and the longshoremen on the wharf laughed as hard as they could.
The longshoremen joined the boatmen in refusing to handle coal, and the shovelers followed.
The longshoremen now resolved to go out and refused to work on ships which received scab coal, and finally they decided to stop work altogether on all kinds of craft in the harbor until the trouble should be settled.
Quite another group of laborers are the longshoremen who, far from lounging indolently in a hallway, are straining every muscle as they heave some great crate into a ship's hold.
I will run right home now and tell Mary Duff," and suiting the action to the word, Courage was at the wharf's end and up the street and out of sight before the slow-moving longshoremen had fairly settled to work again.
The 'longshoremen were just quitting work as they neared them, and Larry paused to have a word with Big Bob and the other men whom he knew, Courage keeping fast hold of his hand all the while.
Coasting seamen and bay sailors they mostly were, although there were many 'longshoremen and waterfront workmen among them.
There was also the still painful memory of the one-day general strike called by the transport workers and the longshoremen when the Supreme Court delayed its decision on the validity of the Tabio labor codes.
It was a small place with a zinc bar in one corner, patronized largely by longshoremenand petty customs officials.
This type of difference is exemplified in the work of longshoremen and lumbermen; some men being engaged on one type of work are employed regularly, while men engaged on other jobs are employed irregularly or casually.
Such, also, to take another example was the situation recognized in the course of the attempt during the war to standardize the wages of the stevedores and longshoremen employed in the South Atlantic ports.
The boats were late getting to the docks, and the longshoremen and freight handlers had to labor far into the night.
He ate a hearty meal, and was taking a rest on deck, for the 'longshoremen and freight handlers would not resume their labors until one o'clock, when he saw coming up the gangplank a boy about his own age.
Shortly after, the governor returned to Jamestown with a large number of longshoremen and loafers, great enough in quantity, but inferior as soldiers in quality.
Robert Stevens sprang to his side, and both smiled at the lack of courage and discipline which Berkeley's longshoremen displayed.
I got the 'longshoremen and stevedores to scatter throughout Ireland information about this country and about the way to get here.
My first step was to engage the services of as many Irish 'longshoremen and stevedores as possible.
Captain Scraggs was nowhere in sight, but Mr. Gibney was at the winch, swinging ashore the crates of vegetables which The Squarehead and three longshoremen loaded into the cargo net.
Promptly at twelve o'clock, the longshoremen knocked off work for the lunch hour and Neils Halvorsen drifted across the street to cool his parched throat with steam beer.
And it ain't many of these longshoremen who know how to handle a motor.
The waiting longshoremenran to seize the broken boat and drag it above high-water mark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longshoremen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
