Word Finder - strikers

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An individual who is on strike.

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• turnout

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Someone or something that hits someone or something else.

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One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

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An officer's servant or orderly.

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(1800s) The batter.

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The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.

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A harpoon.

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A harpooner.

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An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.

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• green hand

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A wencher; a lewd man.

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A blackmailer in politics.

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One whose political influence can be bought.

The strikers were beaten, but certain abuses were corrected.

Towards the en._ cf October 20,000 shearers were called out, and many other trades, principally concerned with the handling or shipping of wool, joined the ranks of the strikers, with the result that the maritime and pastoral industries throughout the whole of Australia were most injuriously disturbed.

The number of industrial strikes has risen from year to year, although, on account of the large number of persons involved in some of them, the rise in the number of strikers has not sUlk always corresponded to the number of strikes, During, es.

Conflicts occurred between the strikers and the independent laborers and the police; the trouble spread to the city of Parma, where violent scenes occurred when the labor exchange was occupied by the troops, and many soldiers and policemen, whose behaviour as usual was exemplary throughout, were seriously wounded.

The agitation ceased in June with the defeat of the strikers, but not until a vast amount of damage had been done to the crops and all had suffered heavy losses, including the government, whose expenses for the maintenance of public order ran into tens of millions of lire.

In the following gubernatorial campaign this was made an issue by his Democratic opponent, who appealed to those in sympathy with the strikers.

During the great sailors' strike at Marseilles in 1904 he showed pronounced sympathy with the socialistic aims and methods of the strikers, and a strong feeling was aroused that his Radical sympathies tended to a serious weakening of the navy and to destruction of discipline.

The most noted instance of military interference was in 1894, when President Grover Cleveland sent United States troops to Chicago to prevent strikers and rioters from interfering with the transmission of the United States mails.

In this position, during the strike of the railway employes in Chicago in 1894, he instructed the district attorneys to secure from the Federal Courts writs of injunction restraining the strikers from acts of violence, and thus set a precedent for "government by injunction."

After 1873 he practised law in Chicago, was the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois in 1880, became a Populist in 1894, and defended the railway strikers in Chicago in the same year.

Following protests by the strikers, including a visit to the newspaper offices, the paper retracted the allegations.

Blakemore and Southgate are without doubt the club's best two strikers and to have them both on the bench almost backfired.

The Workers Solidarity Alliance asks all comrades, regardless of affiliation, to aid these strikers.

The strikers gathered in thousands, and behaved, according to all the accounts, in a perfectly orderly manner.

The Communists emerged there and represented the standpoint of the strikers in the light of the Communist movement.

Paul Stansfield rattled the Brigg crossbar from 25 yards and keeper Peter Collinge made some smart saves to deny the home strikers.

A long clearance was put over the Cheshunt back line and the opposing strikers rushed on to score.

Meyer spoke of a delegation from a nearby engine works who came to express their solidarity with the strikers.

You can play Super Mario Brothers, Mario Strikers (soccer), Mario Kart and many more.

You will not find any of the Mario Party titles here, nor is Super Mario Strikers available.

Super Mario Strikers is the newest addition to the series of games by Nintendo that takes everyone's favorite plumber and all of his friends (and enemies), and throws them into the sports arena.

The failure of the strike caused the Socialists to quarrel among themselves and to accuse each other of dishonesty in the management of party funds; it appeared in fact that the large sums collected throughout Italy on behalf of the strikers had been squandered or appropriated by the syndacalist leaders.

There was a less violent street car strike in 1908, after the assumption of control by the Municipal Traction Company, which refused to raise wages according to promises made (so the employees said) by the former owner of the railway; the strikers were unsuccessful.