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A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [ 1 ] As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the 1960s.
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.It stars Marlon Brando, and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut.
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A longshoreman's hook was often carried by hooking it through the belt. Longshoremen carried various types of hooks depending on the cargo they would handle. Cargo could come in the form of bales, sacks, barrels, wood crates, or it could be stowed individually in the cargo hold of the ship. The primary function of the hook was to protect the ...
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With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
Ryan in 1934. Joseph Patrick Ryan (May 11, 1884 – June 26, 1963) was an American labor union leader.. Born in Babylon, New York, Ryan worked various jobs from the age of 12 and became in 1912 a longshoreman on the New York docks.