strike pay
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How to use strike pay in a sentence
"We're a-goin' to get strike pay," he countered, seizing the opening.
Mrs. Bindle | Hebert JenkinsI set myself at once to collect funds to enable me to pay the men that had families more than strike pay, which was 10s.
From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography | George Edwards M.P., O.B.E.The Executive dealt one more blow at the St. Faith's men by carrying a motion that all strike pay cease after a week.
From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography | George Edwards M.P., O.B.E.But they never give me no strike-pay—they laughed an' chucked me out.
Tales of Mean Streets | Arthur MorrisonYou must need that for your wife and children—that must be your share of your strike pay!
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson Nexo
British Dictionary definitions for strike pay
money paid to strikers from the funds of a trade union
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