A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike. Strikebreakers...
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"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...
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Strike action (section Strikebreakers)
contracts. A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually...
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Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph which shows a strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers. Photographer Milton Brooks captured...
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for Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 Derogatory nickname for strikebreaker Scab (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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across racial lines, then the ruling class would exploit blacks as strikebreakers and an instrument of repression. The state party's 1912 platform stated:...
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Pinkerton (detective agency) (category Strikebreakers)
Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel. Tensions between the workers and strikebreakers erupted into violence, which led to the deaths of three Pinkerton agents...
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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...
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History of union busting in the United States (section College students as strikebreakers in the Interborough Rapid Transit strike of 1905)
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...
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a labor reserve army in the nineteenth-century sense: a backlog of strikebreakers during booms; to be expelled during busts; then reabsorbed again in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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deployed troops to its oil facilities. Navy personnel were also used as strikebreakers in the oil industry. Street marches declined, and oil production began...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The owners attempted to replace them with black strikebreakers. During union protests, strikebreaker African-American Fred Rouse was lynched on a tree...
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There a Man...?" (1951) "Hostess" (1951) "Sally" (1953), a Robot story "Strikebreaker" (1957) "The Machine that Won the War" (1961), a Multivac story "Eyes...
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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...
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up esquirol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Esquirol means scab (strikebreaker) in Spanish, and squirrel in Catalan and Occitan. It is also a surname...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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turned to convict leasing, providing prisoners to mining companies as strikebreakers, which was protested by miners forced to compete with the system. An...
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O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781449397784. "The Origin of fink 'informer, hired strikebreaker'" by William Sayers. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and...
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September 1921, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers (called the Logan Defenders) who were backed by coal mine operators...
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a bloody melee on a sweltering October day between strikers, scabs, strikebreakers, and studio security. Film portal United States portal African American...
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movement, strongly opposed by management. Frick brought in thousands of strikebreakers to work the steel mills and Pinkerton agents to safeguard them. On July...
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