Dockers

The average all common laborers, outside the dockers, is less than $4 per week, while the dockers average from $2 to $2.25. ❋ Unknown (1903)

November 1st, 2007 at 1: 49 pm wwbd says: dockers is where it’s at. stain resistant and water-proof! ❋ Unknown (2007)

His career was rocked in 1899 by a conspiracy between ice companies, dockers and the city government to create a monopoly in New York's ice supply. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Then there's the white community," continued King, which he characterised as comprising "what one might describe as the old, white working-class, what remains of the dockers 'families," plus incomers attracted by the private rental sector and its convenience for work. ❋ Dave Hill (2010)

His navy blue shirt was untucked over his khaki dockers. ❋ Melissa Ann Chadburn (2010)

Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work? ❋ Unknown (2010)

He lashed out at the strikers, who he said refuse to accept reality, singling out in particular the dockers, refinery workers and truck drivers who have disrupted gasoline distribution and led to pump closures. ❋ Edward Cody (2010)

The dockers crowd at the entrance gate, and curse and turn away when the foreman does not give them a call. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But this was not Robbie Fowler demonstrating welcome support for sacked Liverpool dockers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So don't get your dockers in a twists, Sarah Palin has been one big contridiction after another. ❋ Unknown (2009)

SF Tapered, $98, dockers.com; W Black Linen, $425, stubbsandwootton.com But away from the pool, marina or Amalfi Coast, the sockless look conveys a hint of non-conformity. ❋ Darrell Hartman (2011)

He became a leader of the fruit-porters, represented the dockers on the London Trades Council, and wrote trenchant articles for the labour journals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Christened Henry James, Redknapp was born in Poplar, east London, the son and grandson of dockers. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The 19th century saw the boom of the docks, when the Isle of Dogs was awash with spices, indigo and Persian carpets; it culminated in the dockers' strike of 1889 which set a precedent for many workers' struggles to come. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thousands of dockers – tough men from Liverpool and London with metal hooks, tattoos and plenty of attitude – would still have jobs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today, dockers are trousers for £19.99 because they've been made in China and brought here in a big metal box. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One can imagine the dockers looking nervously up and awaiting the variant in pressure that will send the giant ball either in a curving arc out over the Isle Of Axeholme, or rolling like a bowling ball towards coal hoist skittles, pigeons beating up into the Yorkshire air. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

The people watching football were very largely dockers and their children. ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)