Steamboats plied the Red River, and stevedores loaded and unloaded cargo. The Navy was segregated and black sailors were usually assigned menial work such as stevedores. In this social hierarchy, Irish laborers, stevedores, and dock workers were at the very bottom. The Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage worker operations. The lack of stevedores for unloading ships in combat zones was creating a problem. Gross and Sepczynski are the stevedores helping Sobotka to unload the ship. Black men worked as stevedores, construction worker, and as cellar-, well- and grave-diggers. They also created a class of trading middlemen, such as agents, banias, mutsuddis, and stevedores. Deck officers and stevedores oversee the operations. Most were in labour companies, engineers, stevedores and transport units. Ziggy is egged on by the other stevedores to retaliate against Maui's taunting. From March-May the battalion strength was 1006 including stevedores. The first American stevedores in France were civilians. Delores is the owner of the bar frequented by the Stevedores. La Frugola enters, looking for Talpa, her husband and one of the stevedores.