Sentence examples for strikebreaker from inspiring English sources

The day the strikers' wives pelted the scabs with rotten eggs and a strikebreaker and Irish ex-cop named Edward Casey cracked Jimmie Morris's skull, the governor of Wisconsin called in the National Guard from Milwaukee.

The corpse of a strikebreaker — either a victim of bludgeoning or a drunk who fell on the railroad tracks, depending on who was asked — was found near the tent colony of Forbes, and guardsmen arrested the Forbes men and tore the tents down.

"Amos is a complex man," Dov Alfon told me, "both a political radical and a strikebreaker, a real lefty and at the same time the scion of an aristocratic family, and a bit of a snob about it, who thinks Haaretz is not for everyone".

Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.

Just down from Oxford, Greene was a strikebreaker during the general strike, having been a member of the Communist party for all of six weeks.

Joe Robbins, known as an Englishman or a strikebreaker, fought with everyone & died of thirst in the scrub.

For him, strikebreakers are almost always "scabs" and growers not even worth listening to.

In August 1900, members of the ASRS went on strike for higher wages and union recognition but settled within a fortnight when the company employed strikebreakers; the workers gained virtually nothing but the company's promise of reemployment.

On May 3 one person was killed and several injured as police intervened to protect strikebreakers and intimidate strikers during a union action at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company that was part of a national campaign to secure an eight-hour workday.

Picketing, Act by workers of standing in front of or near a workplace to call attention to their grievances, discourage patronage, and, during strikes, to discourage strikebreakers.

The conflict between the union workers and the strikebreakers, meanwhile, took on racial overtones in the fall of 1892.