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longshoremen

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longshoremen - When sailors passed goods from the ships to men along the shore, those men came to be called longshoremen.
See also related terms for ships.
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I could, in a way, considering that they were friends and shipmates, understand Spider and Whisky Bob being asked to drink; but why should the longshoremen, Bill Kelley and Soup Kennedy, be asked?
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For Bill Totts was a dues-paying member of the Longshoremen Union and had a right to be indignant with the usurpers of his job.
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