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trades-unionist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as trade-unionist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

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Examples

  • And I doubt not, .... that I should have evolved into a professional strike-breaker, (one of President Eliot's American heroes), and had my head and my earning power irrevocably smashed by a club in the hands of some militant trades-unionist.

    How I Became a Socialist 2010

  • He was an ardent trades-unionist, a working manager and a bit of a communist.

    Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945

  • It means, in England, what an American union man (English: trades-unionist) calls a closed-shop.

    Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921

  • And I doubt not, if other events had not changed my career, that I should have evolved into a professional strike-breaker, (one of President Eliot's American heroes), and had my head and my earning power irrevocably smashed by a club in the hands of some militant trades-unionist.

    How I Became a Socialist 1905

  • Not so the other and even more privileged class, -- the so-called "wage-earner"; for, disguise it as the trades-unionist will, angrily deny it as he does, the fact remains that to-day under the operation of our jury system and of our laws, the Wage-earner and the member of the Trades-Union has become, as respects the rest of the community, himself a monopolist and, moreover, privileged as such.

    "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 Charles Francis Adams 1875

  • President Eliot's American heroes), and had my head and my earning power irrevocably smashed by a club in the hands of some militant trades-unionist.

    HOW I BECAME A SOCIALIST 2010

  • New York: The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has asked Caricom Heads of government and United States Congressional leaders to condemn last weeks assassination attempt against Guyanese trades-unionist and Secretary General of the Caribbean Congress of Labor, Lincoln Lewis.

    propaganda press! freedom in Guyana resist 2008

  • Not so the other and even more privileged class, ” the so-called “wage-earner”; for, disguise it as the trades-unionist will, angrily deny it as he does, the fact remains that to-day under the operation of our jury system and of our laws, the Wage-earner and the member of the Trades-Union has become, as respects the rest of the community, himself a monopolist and, moreover, privileged as such.

    'Tis Sixty Years Since Adams, Charles Francis 1913

  • President Eliot's American heroes), and had my head and my earning power irrevocably smashed by a club in the hands of some militant trades-unionist.

    War of the Classes Jack London 1896

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