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Example sentences for "unionists"

  • Most of the old tried unionists saw nothing to be gained in wasting energy on a dead struggle.

  • It had to come--the radical unionists were just waiting the chance.

  • One ugly side-glance of hatred shot out of the negro's face as he left the hall, a look directed toward the corner where the radical unionists bunched.

  • Co-operation between Socialists and trade unionists should be adopted whenever possible, and, when occasion offers, an alliance should be entered into for common purposes.

  • What have the trade unionists to say to it?

  • In spite of abstract resolutions, our trade unionists are devoted to the wages system; still our co-operators yearn after dividends; still the mass of our producers admire the men who rise upon their shoulders to place and pay.

  • The recommendations which the Socialists addressed to the trade unionists to increase their political power, and to improve their economic position by the use of their political power, became louder and louder.

  • The trade unionists were urged to abolish the voluntary army and to create a national citizen army, which will assist the Socialist in overturning society.

  • The political character of the trade unionists is changing owing to the influence of Socialism and of the new unions.

  • They were told that the capitalists were the enemies of both trade unionists and Socialists, and that co-operation would be of the greatest benefit to both bodies.

  • The movement which is now gaining ground in favour of federation among trade unionists generally, is one of Socialist origin.

  • One of the greatest mistakes the unionists have made since the beginning of the Revolution has been the war declared against the clergy and the church.

  • The unionists in favor of a monarchy wish to transform it into a modern capital that it may become the centre of the general action and influence which united Italy is ambitious of exercising in the world.

  • The "wild Jay-Hawkers of Kaintuck" were coming over into Virginia to get Flitter Bill's store, for they were mountain Unionists and Bill was a valley rebel and lawful prey.

  • Should the anti-Unionists triumph, they declared there were reasons to expect not merely the loss of California to the Union ranks but internecine strife and fratricidal murders such as were then ravaging the Missouri and Kansas border.

  • To the Unionists of California, the report that their troops and Sumner were to leave the state spelt extreme discouragement.

  • Like the Bakouninists, the chief strength of the revolutionary unionists lies in criticism rather than in any constructive thought or action of their own.

  • The trade-unionists in the Latin countries dislike to pay dues, and the whole organized labor movement as a result lives constantly from hand to mouth.

  • In any case, it is becoming clear even to the French unionists that direct action is not and cannot be, as Guesde has pointed out, revolutionary action.

  • He had been chosen Vice-President as a concession to the War Democrats and to the Unionists of the Border States whose support had been thought necessary to defeat McClellan.

  • In Georgia the Unionists put up a much stronger fight, led by Alexander Stephens, afterwards Vice-President of the Confederacy.

  • He spoke of a Committee of Southern pseudo-unionists coming to him before inauguration for guarantees, etc.

  • Many workers are trade unionists when they are striking but their trade unionism lapses when the strike is over, for then the unions seem to have small reason for existing.

  • Its organization was loose, its financial resources insignificant; the continental unionists joined it more in the hope of borrowing than of contributing support.

  • It gained its first triumph in the effectual support of the bronze-workers at Paris during their lock-out in 1867; and it repeatedly aided the English unionists by preventing the importation of cheap labour from the continent.

  • The hopes of the unionists were roused by the appointment of W.

  • I ask you to provide for the execution of recent treaties with Venezuela and Russia, to assure protection to Unionists in Maryland and Kentucky, and to give peace to the country.

  • Let her colored citizens enjoy the full-blown rights of citizens, and let the white Unionists there have the protection of their votes.

  • The return visit of the journalists was followed by a mission of British Trades-Unionists to the Continent; we received a deputation representing Continental Labour in our turn.

  • The unionists were thrown permanently out of employment in large numbers, and when at last the strike fizzled out, their leaders made a melancholy proclamation of victory, which deceived nobody, not even themselves.

  • Let the Unionists hold their ground a bit, till it dies out, or until the rival factious destroy each other.

  • The Unionists tramped on cheering triumphantly, rejoicing in their strength, ignoring the taunting and jeering of the Parnellite scum as beneath contempt.

  • Those who ridicule the assertions of Protestants and Catholic Unionists with reference to the lack of liberty may explain away what was told me by Mr. J.

  • It is in view of this fact that the Unionists of Ireland not unreasonably declare that under a Home Rule Bill the Roman Catholic clergy would become endowed with civil privileges which would make them absolute rulers of Ireland.

  • Further inquiry confirmed the statement that the book-buying community are practically Unionists to a man.

  • They took it at first as a small instalment of what they would afterwards kick out of the Saxon, but those outrageous Unionists have shaved it down to almost nothing.

  • The great defect of the Irish Unionists is want of courage.

  • Earnest Unionists are by no means scarce, and, as usual, they are the pick of the population.

  • The Unionists do not exercise the great influence they undoubtedly possess.

  • That ought to be enough to enable Irish Unionists not, as one said to me, "to enlighten the English people.

  • The Protestant Unionists especially avoid all mention of religion as long as possible.

  • The Ulstermen are the entrenched army; the Cork Unionists are the advanced picket.

  • The Unionists are determined at all costs to maintain religious equality and to hold their own.

  • A general election followed in July, and 74 Liberal Unionists were returned, forming with the Conservatives a Unionist party, which outnumbered Gladstonians and Parnellites together by over a hundred.

  • The Unionists of Ireland had been taken by surprise, and out of Ulster they had no organization capable of opposing the National League and the government combined.

  • There, out of twenty-three candidates at the last election standing for eighteen seats, four Unionists were elected by a similar method of compromise.

  • At the critical moment the extreme faction of the Ulster Unionists has intervened and driven back the Tory Party to its fatal enslavement.

  • But the eloquent fact remains that the ultimate triumph of the Ulster Unionists over the Devolution Party of 1903 was marked by his resignation.

  • It would not be the first time, nor the latest since Castlereagh, when the extreme Protestant Unionists of this country conspired with the Tory Ultramontanes of the Vatican to traffic away the liberties of Ireland.

  • Some of the Unionists themselves give a shrewd though cynical comment on the situation when they suggest, in the intervals of crying "Home Rule means Rome Rule," that probably the Roman Catholic priests have no great zeal for Home Rule.

  • The property of all Northerners and Unionists is to be sequestrated, and Uncle Ralph can hardly get the work done fast enough.

  • It is a good way to get more guns, and the homes of those men suspected of being Unionists were searched first.

  • Mr. Frick might as well have undertaken to storm Gibraltar as to introduce a force of non-unionists into the town.

  • An attempt to "evangelize" the non-unionists was made by the distribution of circulars appealing to their manhood in the name of organized labor.

  • By the middle of August about 200 non-unionists were lodged in the company houses near the mill under protection of the military.

  • The furnaces were lit at last, and the news circulated rapidly throughout the town that the company was suspected of having smuggled in enough non-unionists to renew operations.

  • After this sermon, the more illiterate of the non-unionists were firmly convinced that Saul of Tarsus was the leading non-unionist of his time besides being a regular martinet in military matters.

  • That the enjoyment of fair rates of wages by the non-union workmen at Braddock and Duquesne was due to the fixing of a standard by the Amalgamated Association, below which the wages of non-unionists could not decently be permitted to fall.

  • Towards the end of October assaults on non-unionists became very frequent.

  • When the four non-unionists came out, the mob surged around them and some of the more violent suggested lynching or a ducking in the river as fit treatment for the "scabs.

  • Nevertheless, the non-unionists were enabled to return to the mill in safety and the last murmurings of the tumult were silenced by policemen and deputy sheriffs after Major Crawford left the scene.

  • The affair arose out of an altercation between two colored non-unionists and a striker.

  • It is not usual for Liberal Unionists and Conservatives to fight one another at elections in Great Britain at present.

  • America, and among Industrial Unionists and Guild Socialists in Great Britain.

  • It was a gathering of the workers in the various industries in the town, Trade Unionists most of them, but with a considerable number who had never owed allegiance to any Union and a number of disgruntled ex-Unionists.

  • It was then that our faithful fellows were called forwards to save the armies, and they saved them, too, standing like walls of adamant between the white Unionists and their terrible foes.


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