Blue Book – Company controlled union, created to avoid collective bargaining.
Bloody Thursday – July 5th 1934 when two strikers were killed by police
Bootleg joints – places that distributed illegally produced alcoholic beverages Prohibition was not repealed until 1933.
Brass checks – brass tokens used by Steamship companies to pay workers
Limey – nickname for Rank and file leader Harry Bridges
Shape-up – Meeting of hiring bosses and stevedores where work is assigned, riddled with favoritism, discrimination, corruption, and pay-offs in the hiring of men.
Speed-up – Forcing workers to work at a rapid and often unsafe speed. Employers could fire any man considered too slow. This meant that every man at a site had to work the absolute fastest he could for fear of losing his job.