Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worcester, Mass...
Cambridge, Mass...
...election night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
...turn away from their doors. After a few trucks had been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union officials claimed the stores had lost $1,000,000 worth of sales. Dumbfounded were their owners, who had been confident that the city would forbid mass picketing. Instead, Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who devoted his main speech before the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week to boasting the efficiency of his personal Labor Relations Board, proved more than friendly to the picketers. Only rules were that they must keep moving, not talk...
...down by virile M. Salengro when they were becoming a national menace (TIME, June 8 et seq.) and this week, as nervous Premier Blum temporarily took charge of the Ministry of Interior himself, fresh stayin strikes erupted. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez turned what was to have been a Paris mass meeting of mourning for Suicide Salengro into a howling mob which screamed, "Cannon for Spain!" and "Down with Fascism!" at Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Vainly he shouted, "I came here thinking we would all unite in commemorating Roger Salengro...