Former profession in the harbour.
1 On his right lay a black-haired, yellow-faced dock labourer with a broken nose.
2 The most brilliant men are amenable to the temptations of the savage and of the dock labourer .
3 His father is a dock labourer .
4 Ask the men and they will tell you something like the following story, which gives the simple experiences of a dock labourer .
5 Many people complain about dock labourers that they will not work after four o'clock.
6 Indeed, some 500 dock labourers were discharged because they would not be sworn in.
7 The porters, sweepers, and dock labourers went without bread and garlic, that they might pay for their places.
8 Not that anybody read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had heard of him-women ,children ,docklabourers, cabmen.
9 How could he find dock labourers willing to load and unload his ships for "starvation wages"?
10 Some 15 dock labourers staying at a lodge on Patrick Street in Cork city can now also be traced.
11 "So we do the East Enders, and the Lancashire operatives and the dock labourers . "
12 Shutting the door on his failure, he hurried off with his dog to lose himself among the stevedores and dock labourers on West Street.
13 The young doctors had flung their coats off and were handling the heaviest stuff like dock labourers at trade union rates, though with more agility.
14 They jostled each other for preference, they clamoured for notice as I have seen the dock labourers clamouring for a job at the London docks.
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