Sentence examples for dock strike from inspiring English sources

(AP) INDIA: NATIONAL DOCK STRIKE Nearly 100,000 workers went on strike for higher wages at 11 major ports in India's first nationwide dock strike in a decade.

The work stoppage, which began Wednesday, was the first widespread East Coast dock strike since 1971.

The 1889 great dock strike was a dispute over working conditions in London's East End.

Sir Albert Rollit, the arbitrator in the London dock strike, is expected to give his award to-day [Aug.

On June 14th it looked as if the threatened national dock strike (the first in 44 years) had been averted.

Manning won general public regard for his social concern and his successful intervention in the 1889 London dock strike.

Government acted to break a series of dock strikes, without general union opposition, in a situation that closely paralleled that in Australasia.

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The only casualties in the landing occurred on 10 September when HMS Abdiel, while manoeuvring alongside the dock, struck a mine and sank.

This, combined with the many dock strikes in the same era, made the East End a key element in the foundation of modern socialist and trade union organisations, as well as the Suffragette movement.

The 1970 docks strike was the first of a series of increasingly effective stoppages during the Heath administration, which culminated in the miners' strike of 1974, the three-day week and the Tories' electoral defeat.