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...bought A.T. & T. stock at the company's urging, they represented management. But they were also getting in some licks for the 16,000 C.I.O. unionists who were on strike at A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric. The strikers had been picketing A.T. & T. exchanges, trying to disrupt service and sometimes, as in Philadelphia, trading wallops with police who tried to clear the buildings...
...buzzing in its ear came from the strike of 16,000 C.I.O. equipment workers in A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric Co. Though they were on strike in 43 states, the workers knew they couldn't completely disrupt telephone service. There were just too few of them. So to snarl the maximum of telephone lines with the minimum of means, the strikers began what they called "hit & run" picketing. They would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service...
...definite steps have been taken to disrupt the present service, but Reynolds said the University is now considering substitute programs for possible use beginning next September...
There would be nothing unusual about this registration were it not for the way a small group of fanatically nationalistic Puerto Ricans tried to disrupt it, and the spectacular manner in which they themselves were disrupted...
Randall squelched the Massachusetts Avenue parade on the grounds that it would disrupt traffic. Cambridge Police Lieutenant William L. Nixon said last night that the University could hold rally parades on Massachusetts Avenue if it secured a permit. Cambridge Latin School held just such a parade on October...