Word: goon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous strikes the Reds could always count at least on closing down the Renault plant-long a Communist stronghold-in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. This time, Red goon squads succeeded in shutting off power and steam, but were challenged and thrown out by fighting contingents from non-Communist unions, and production was soon back to normal...
...picked to hire the stevedores was Dino Mariani, a stocky character who had once boxed on the Italian Olympic team and had run Genoa's waterfront until the Communists took it over and put him out of action (after a brutal thrashing by a Red goon squad...
...union representative added that there had been no violence in Cambridge and that he did not expect any. He asserted that the trouble in Boston was caused by "goon squads" hired by the American Federation of Labor. The Checker Company meanwhile is using a "few drivers" to continue operating...
Soon, though the independent drivers themselves are members of the Teamsters Union, roving goon squads formed menacingly around the nonstriking bakeries, blocked off the highways and bridges leading out of town. Bricks were heaved through windshields, drivers slapped and pummeled, tires punctured, ignition systems ripped out, sugar poured into gas tanks. Drivers from bakeries not involved in the strike were forced off the road; one lost $480 in receipts, others watched helplessly while their loads of bread, pies and cakes were trampled, fouled with chemicals, strewn along the streets. At one bakery, 100 shouting pickets kept 45 trucks from moving...
John L. Lewis's miners got another expensive lesson in manners last week. In Richmond, Va., the Laburnum Construction Co. brought suit against the U.M.W. for using gun-toting goon squads to stop the construction of a Kentucky coal-processing plant. The miners denied any violence. They had merely picketed the job, they said, to win bargaining rights for their affiliated United Construction Workers. But after hearing witnesses testify that they had been threatened and forced off the job, a circuit court jury found the miners guilty of exceeding "the limits of peaceful picketing," awarded the contractor...