dock labourer

Like his own father (also named William), he worked as a dock labourer.

After all, she'd had a grandfather who came up from being a dock labourer to a millionaire.

These separate negotiations with the other employers left the dock labourers isolated.

Near the docks the inhabitants were poor dock labourers.

For the unskilled workers, such as dock labourers and carters, it was a completely different story.

She inherited a love of reading from her father, Joseph Burford, a dock labourer.

Initially, he worked as a dock labourer, while he was writing his wartime memoirs, Destroyer Captain.

Most of the local men found employment as dock labourers, carters or merchant seamen; the women worked in the mills and cigarette factories.

On the other side of Warren was a younger man, a dock labourer by the name of Thompson, making a slow recovery from appendicitis.

By this time there were 3,100 dock labourers, 2,000 of whom were casual workers or "spellsmen" hired on a daily basis at low pay.

National Union of Dock Labourers (1889-1922)

In 1889 Champion was one of the leaders of the dock labourers' strike, to the funds of which a large sum was sent from Australia.

Jobs in Sailortown were traditionally passed from father to son; Lenny Murphy's grandfather had also worked as a dock labourer.

The Scottish Union of Dock Labourers was a Glasgow-based trade union for waterfront workers.

Sholing was a poor parish, with a mixed population of dock labourers and itinerant workers, many inclined to drunkenness, with little interest in churchgoing.

The skilled workers lived in terraced houses in the east of the town, while the casual dock labourers lived in cramped, dwellings near the dockside.

McGhee left his post in 1889, to become honorary President of the National Union of Dock Labourers.

Visitors at Hawarden in October were "shocked...by some rather wild language on the Dock labourers question".

He was born in the St. Mary's area of Southampton, the son of dock labourer from Jersey in the Channel Islands.

He worked from an early age, first as a dock labourer in the port of Galaţi, and after 1910 as a waiter in Bucharest, Romania's capital.

Reader Bullard was born in Walthamstow, the son of Charles, a dock labourer, and Mary Bullard.

Stevedore, dockworker, docker, dock labourer, wharfie and longshoreman can have various waterfront-related meanings concerning loading and unloading ships, according to place and country.

During his time working for the dock labourers, Edwards was to play a leading part in the public inquiry which looked into the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

The National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

In 1727 Dr. Engelbert Kämpfer described "coolies" as dock labourers who would unload Dutch merchant ships at Nagasaki in Japan.