A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike. Strikebreakers...

"Strikebreaker" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science...

Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph which shows a strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers. Photographer Milton Brooks captured...

artillery company of the state militia.: 190  They were to protect black strikebreakers and suppress the wage strikers. A part of the militia arrived to suppress...

between 11 and 12 July: Bombing of the boat Amalthea where British strikebreakers lived by Anton Nilsson One was killed and 23 wounded. Anton Nilsson...

Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel. Tensions between the workers and strikebreakers erupted into violence, which led to the deaths of three Pinkerton agents...

a labor reserve army in the nineteenth-century sense: a backlog of strikebreakers during booms; to be expelled during busts; then reabsorbed again in...

securities or money, 48 Stat. 794 (1934), 18 U.S.C. § 415; transporting strikebreakers, 49 Stat. 1899 (1936), 18 U.S.C. § 407a; destruction or dumping of farm...

Pennsylvania. It was also used by union strikers to describe poor white strikebreakers. Writers Edward Abbey and Dave Foreman also use "redneck" as a political...

striking coal miners, who were arrested for rioting after a clash with strikebreakers. Lynch, McKinley's opponent in the 1871 election, and his partner, William...

Nebraska had to call in U.S. Army troops from nearby Fort Omaha to protect strikebreakers for the Burlington Railroad, bringing along Gatling guns and a cannon...

Jones". ″Casey Jones—the Union Scab″ fictitiously portrays Jones as a strikebreaker at Southern Pacific. As his engine is badly in disrepair he crashes...

term for a worker who continues to work while others are on strike; a strikebreaker Glasper, Ian (2006) The Day the Country Died: a History of Anarcho-punk...

mine guards and firing into a separate camp where strikebreakers lived. When the body of a strikebreaker was found nearby, the National Guard's General Chase...

turned to convict leasing, providing prisoners to mining companies as strikebreakers, which was protested by miners forced to compete with the system. An...

across racial lines, then the ruling class would exploit blacks as strikebreakers and an instrument of repression. The state party's 1912 platform stated:...

knobstick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Knobstick may refer to: Strikebreaker or blackleg, a derogatory archaic term for a worker who is not part...

cutters in Chicago in July 1904 led to riots before the extensive use of strikebreakers led Shea to force his members back to work (leading to the collapse...

contracts. A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually...

the border of Mexico to protest growers' use of illegal immigrants as strikebreakers. Joining him on the march were Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator...

Louis Bergoff (April 23, 1875 or 1878-August 11, 1947) was an American strikebreaker noted for violent tactics from the early 1900s through the 1930s. Bergoff...

The owners attempted to replace them with black strikebreakers. During union protests, strikebreaker African-American Fred Rouse was lynched on a tree...

a bloody melee on a sweltering October day between strikers, scabs, strikebreakers, and studio security. Film portal United States portal Category:Documentary...

deployed troops to its oil facilities. Navy personnel were also used as strikebreakers in the oil industry. Street marches declined, and oil production began...

O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781449397784. "The Origin of fink 'informer, hired strikebreaker'" by William Sayers. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and...

up esquirol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Esquirol means scab (strikebreaker) in Spanish, and squirrel in Catalan and Occitan. It is also a surname...

failure of the UFW strike on illegal immigrants who were brought in as strikebreakers. He made the unsubstantiated claim that the CIA was involved in part...

those men, he had taken a job at a factory, which he continues as a strikebreaker. One night, by chance, he runs into Connor, whom he attacks again. Afterward...

included calling for the nationalisation of railways, the banning of strikebreakers, and the introduction of referendums. The party gained representation...

sheep caused by the mite Psoroptes ovis Scab, a pejorative term for a strikebreaker, a person who works despite strike action or against the will of other...