Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputation of our family in town is beyond reproach." Asked repeatedly to tell what her charges were, old Miss Smith let it be known that she had not investigated and would not press them in detail, but still wanted Miss Hallin to resign for "professional reasons." Students began to picket Miss Smith's house with such placards as WE WANT FAIR PLAY! GIVE THE HOME GIRL A CHANCE...
...truce was to last until the National Labor Relations Board should give an official ruling. Inland's final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere! We've obtained a very fine settlement." The grim picket line became a victory parade and 12,000 men returned to their jobs...
Rounding out its first full month last week, the Steel Strike of 1937, biggest and bloodiest since 1919, entered upon a fresh, perhaps final, phase. From mill gate and picket line the major action shifted rearward to civil courts, State capitals, Congressional committee rooms and the editorial and advertising columns of the nation's press. Temporarily stalemated by martial law in two steel States, both Labor and Capital grasped desperately for the support of Public Opinion. And Public Opinion, without the support of which no major strike is ever won, seemed to be swinging slowly, imponderably to the side...
...wreck's start Republic's Tom Mercer Girdler and Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell had announced the reopening of their plants in the Youngstown district. Picket lines were hastily strengthened, C.I.O. reinforcements summoned from nearby industrial centres. A pitched battle seemed inevitable. To Secretary of Labor Perkins went a plea from John L. Lewis to "prevent this contemplated butchery." Said Mr. Lewis: "I told her that sornewhere there should be a power that could be exercised tonight to restrain this madman Girdler...
Both steelmaster and striker soon changed their tune. Methodically the troopers stopped invading C.I.O. sympathizers at the city line, disarmed the picket lines, confiscated weapons which included hatchets, axes, clubs, baseball bats, slingshots, blackjacks, brassknuckles, 15 sticks of dynamite, several buckets of pepper, a machete, a stone tomahawk and a bolo...