Indeed, by the turn of the century, when respectable Americans shunned jazz as black and criminal jungle music but many at the lowest orders of society—mostly black and Italian dockworkers along the Mississippi waterfront—nonetheless demonstrated a willingness to pay to hear and dance to it, New Orleans gangsters happily made it their business. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Artists in San Francisco supported the dockworkers when they went on strike against low wages, long hours and terrible working conditions. ❋ Paul Boden (2011)
Other dockworkers use lift trucks to warehouse the cargo. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)
Acute fuel shortages continued to plague France Monday even as striking dockworkers ended their blockade of the country's biggest oil port, Marseille. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images Transport services also were disrupted, with ferry and rail services suspended after dockworkers joined the strike. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Many artists such as Victor Arnautoff, Adelyne Cross Eriksson and Louise Gilbert commemorated the events leading to the 1934 General Strike, while artists like Pele deLappe worked painting signs and cartooning from the moment the dockworkers went on strike. ❋ Paul Boden (2011)
A few more dockworkers showed up, some waiting cars turned their engines on and truck drivers making the same crossing perked up. ❋ Grif Peterson (2011)
Public services across Greece ground to a halt as hundreds of thousands of civil servants, dockworkers, teachers and hospital staffers walked off the job to protest austerity measures Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Ports in western Washington state and Oakland, California are stepping up safety procedures after multiple reefers -- or refrigerated shipping cars -- exploded in Vietnam and Brazil, killing a total of three dockworkers, MSNBC reports. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The story goes that in 1952, a group of working-class men, dockworkers and bricklayers and such, were listening to bandleader and tres player Arsenio Rodríguez on a jukebox in Matanzas. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)
Sorry Dems – you guys represent english professors, unionized dockworkers, and inner city ghetto dwellers – not typically your brightest or most informed bunch of citizens. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Matters came to a head in June 1966 when a gang of strike-idled dockworkers hired by Smedley seized Shivering Sands and expelled the Radio City staff. ❋ Randall Bloomquist (2010)
But into that bay poured a bounty of fresh water that could refill the holding tanks on the ships, quench the thirst of a land based community of tradesmen and dockworkers, and sustain a rural community of farmers to provision both. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In an unprecedented move, dockworkers in Oakland, California recently refused to cross a picket line to unload a ship from Israel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Timmy: So I met this chick online and we started [hitting it off], she was all chatty and flirty and before I knew it, we were [cybering].
When I finaly convinced her to talk to me on Vent I found out she was a DUDE!
Tommy: Hey man, dockworkers [need love] too! ❋ MortisNai (2008)
