Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bawden Boston, Mass...
Cambridge, Mass...
...leader and organizer. He insists on discipline and peaceful tactics most emphatically, despite all rumors of violence. Each picket line is under the leadership of appointed captains who carry out these principles. To insure that he cannot be accused of terrorizing men into leaving work. Weisbord only conducts mass picketing when no one is entering or leaving the mills. Even picket lines of several thousands are handled without difficulty for the strikers simply march slowly two by two shouting and singing songs...
...police of Passaic and its suburbs have adopted two means of handling the strike. In Passaic and Clifton all attempts at mass picketing have met with police opposition. Clubs are wielded, tear bombs are thrown, and fire hoses are trained on the strikers. As a result the slightest spark may ignite the magazine and precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What...
...difficulties he was combatting, if all prices were suddenly reduced by one half. Although he said that this was merely an idle fancy, he finally bad to agree with me that if it could be done the political problems would disappear like smoke. On the purchasing power of the mass of the people the security and peace of the World undoubtedly depends, and the only way to make this purchasing power sufficiently great is through scientific and mass production...