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The reason for this is obvious; for it would be poor business policy to sign them for any longer time, since seamen's wages are low in England, and England is always crowded with sailormen on the beach.
THE PEG 2010
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This revised edition of a collection of seamen's memories, first published in 1938, is enhanced by the addition of Robert Foulke's remarkably comprehensive essay on the life and literature of sail.
Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011
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They threaten seamen's lives, repeatedly, they shoot at us, they deprive us of rights that they themselves complain about, he said.
Somali Man Sentenced to More Than 33 Years in Hijacking of Ships Chad Bray 2011
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Being only seamen, on seamen's wages, they hailed with delight the news that they were bound in for a tropic isle to fill their water - barrels.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Tension mounted once more in the country's main port of Piraeus early Tuesday morning, where hundreds of PAME demonstrators attempted to prevent tourists and locals from boarding ferries to Aegean islands, even though a court had declared seamen's participation in the strike illegal.
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In 2006, the previous center-right New Democracy government used those same powers to end an extended seamen's strike.
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Tension mounted once more in the country's main port of Piraeus, where hundreds of demonstrators from a Communist Party-backed labor union attempted to prevent tourists and locals from boarding ferries to Aegean islands, even though a court had declared seamen's participation in the strike illegal.
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A similar strike by two seamen's unions last week – which was also declared illegal – left thousands of travelers stranded in Piraeus for a day.
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A similar strike by two seamen's unions last week - which was also declared illegal - left thousands of travelers stranded in Piraeus for a day.
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A similar strike by two seamen's unions last week - which was also declared illegal - left thousands of travelers stranded for a day in Piraeus.
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