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
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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.
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He was an ardent trades-unionist, a working manager and a bit of a communist.
Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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