A yellow dog that's spent most of his life in a cheap New York flat, sleeping in a corner on an old sateen underskirt (the one she spilled port wine on at the Lady
Longshoremen's banquet), mustn't be expcctcd to perform any tricks with the art of speech.
I could, in a way, considering that they were friends and shipmates, understand Spider and Whisky Bob being asked to drink; but why should the
longshoremen, Bill Kelley and Soup Kennedy, be asked?
The powerful fighting organization known as the Pacific Slope Seaman's Union refused to work vessels the cargoes of which were to be handled by scab
longshoremen and freight-handlers.
Coasting seamen and bay sailors they mostly were, although there were many '
longshoremen and waterfront workmen among them.
During the Water Front Strike, Freddie Drummond was somehow able to stand apart from the unique combination, and, coldly critical, watch Bill Totts hilariously slug scab
longshoremen. For Bill Totts was a dues-paying member of the
Longshoremen Union and had a right to be indignant with the usurpers of his job.
"Here is the ladder of the
longshoremen of Port Saint-Landry."
International
Longshoremen's Association (ILA), AFL-CIO
The International
Longshoremen's Association (ILA), the largest union of maritime workers in North America, and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), an alliance of container carriers, direct employers, and port associations serving U.S.-based East and Gulf Coasts, have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract.
They included millionaires, rabbinical students, scrap-metal merchants, ex-GIs, college students,
longshoremen, industrialists, chemists, engineers, Protestants and Catholics, as well as Jews.
Once a ship arrives, crews of
longshoremen will spend about a week loading the logs on the ship.