laborers
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The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Ye-ji is making a documentary about the laborers and strike at SP, and she and her husband will become intimately involved in Ho-seok and Mi-ok’s life as the film proceeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
When the 380-foot steamship Great Republic—one of the world’s largest passenger vessels at the time—arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong, 1,300 blue-coated Chinese laborers filed down its gangplank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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