Word: dockmen
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...neck in troubles. British labor in general seemed as touchy as a wildcat's ribs. Less annoying to the public than the Corporation workers' strike, but more jolting to the national economy, was an unauthorized walkout by about 10,000 of London's 24,000 dockmen. They struck in sympathy with Glasgow's 3,800 dockmen who walked out seven weeks ago when the Ministry of Labor ruled that about 500 of them would have to be dismissed (there was not work enough to spread around...