What is "unionist"

Usage examples of "unionist".

He is favored by unionist acclaim, and by dint of his apostleship you are under his bidding.

He was the first Unionist commander to enter the Northern Cave of Adullam, already infested with Copperhead snakes.

As he watched them go, Cathartes found himself wondering whether in the coming crisis they could be depended on, whether they were capable of more than the routine punishment of strikers and trade unionists.

Some were Anarchists, but the majority were trade unionists and Socialists.

The secessionists, if permitted to retain their franchise, would, even if they accepted abolition, no doubt re-organize their respective States on the basis of white suffrage, and so would the Unionists, if left to themselves.

One morning in June 1905, there met in a hall in Chicago a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States.

You may not remember it but the TUC was a powerful organisation back then, for trade unionists, run by a man with strange hair.

Their young imaginations had been inflamed with stories of the total depravity of the Unionists until they believed it was a meritorious thing to seize every opportunity to exterminate them.

It is likely that leading Baltimore Unionists were enlisted in his behalf through family connections, and as the Border State Unionists were then potent at Washington, they readily secured a commutation of his sentence to imprisonment during the war.

If the Unionists had retained the State organization and government, however small their number, they would have held the State, and the government would have been bound to recognize and to defend them as such with all the force of the Union.

The State organization, the State government, the whole State authority rebelled, made the rebellion territorial, not personal, and left the Unionists, very respectable persons assuredly, residing, if they remained at home, in rebel territory, traitors in the eye of their respective States, and shorn of all political status or rights.

The local Trade Unionists took offence at the fact of Cabinet Ministers having personally acted as strike-breakers, and even the release of Platterbaff failed to pacify them.

Worse than this was the talk which began to spread among the Hoxton and Islington Unionists of a certain young woman in a poor position to whom Mutimer had in former days engaged himself, and whom be did not now find it convenient to marry.

He knew vaguely that the civil rights people were Catholics and that the Unionists controlled the North.

The proportion of trade unionists in the Berlin branch of the KPD fell to less than 30 per cent in 1924.