“It’s a twenty-four-hour stoppage,” he said. “The wharfies went to the Arbitration Court for another pound a week for something or other, and they didn’t get it, so they’ve stopped work for a day to show their displeasure […]”
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Wharfie
Synonyms for "wharfie" (4 found)
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4 translations across 2 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- ahtaaja noun (wharf laborer or stevedore)
- telakkatyöntekijä noun (wharf laborer or stevedore)
Polish
2 entries- doker noun (wharf laborer or stevedore)
- portowiec noun (wharf laborer or stevedore)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
One night, soon after the battle of the Coral Sea, the US transport ship Shenandoah steamed up the Brisbane River to the wharves at Hamilton. She tied up just before eleven o′clock and at midnight a fresh shift of wharfies began unloading her cavernous holds.
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But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence.
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In Fremantle the wharfies were crucial to my preselection. Gordon Harris was the secretary of the Fremantle wharfies, and we got on amicably until he decided to stand against me in 1958.
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