Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before 9 o'clock one morning last week, a 16-ton truck & trailer rig turned off a Jersey City street and rolled ponderously into the tube of the Holland Tunnel, bound for Manhattan. Nobody gave it a second glance-trucks, cars, cabs and buses had been rumbling through...
The change was dictated by a rumor that strikebreakers would be brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well...
At 2130 a.m. a line of car lights signaled the coming of the police. There were 40 cars in all, including 24 radio-equipped squad cars and a bus-sized Black Maria loaded with 40 policemen and supplies of tear gas, submachine guns, automatics and carbines.
Parish Priest Louis-Philippe Camirand, the union's chaplain, rushed a communique to the blockaders. Said he: "You are hopelessly outnumbered. You have done a good day's work. Go home now . . ." When the first police cars pulled up, the barricades were deserted.
Night Patrol. Squad cars patrolling the quieted town brought back word that some of the strikers were hiding out in the basement of the church of Saint-Aimé. Inspector-General Norbert L'Abbé, commanding the police, issued orders to round them up. A squad of 100 police...