What is "strikebreakers"

Usage examples of "strikebreakers".

The strike held for four months, but the plant was producing steel with strikebreakers who were brought in, often in locked trains, not knowing their destination, not knowing a strike was on.

The Guard brought strikebreakers in under cover of night, not telling them there was a strike.

Twenty persons were treated for injuries, three were hurt so seriously that they may die, and dozens of others were nursing wounds from flying bottles, lead pipe, and stones after clashes between striking longshoremen and Negro strikebreakers along the Charlestown-East Boston waterfront.

Deputies and armed strikebreakers in South Carolina fired on pickets, killing seven, wounding twenty others.

Blacks were still being used as strikebreakers, but now there were also attempts to bring blacks and whites together against their common enemy.

On die morning of the April 14, Colorado militiamen and other strikebreakers fired their guns into the camp and burned down the tents, killing twenty--mostly women and children.

Lepke led the way in that field, around from strikebreakers to trade associations to pocket unions.