Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hofmann of the Long Island Press (circ.: 71,341) in Jamaica thought his strike troubles were over when he signed an agreement with the American Newspaper Guild early last week. But when he discharged 27 returned strikers for "reasons of economy," the rest walked out again. An editorial picket line scuffled with pressmen, kept most of them out of the building. At week's end Publisher Hofmann announced that the Press was involuntarily suspending publication, first time in its 118 years...
...battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles full of deputies arrived and were met by a barrage of rocks that broke their windows. Wounded men fell on every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife a peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right...
...week and won convictions of all the accused. While the three justices who presided over the trial retired for a week to cogitate sentences which may amount to twelve years' imprisonment for each of the 17, the Jewish Hospital's original malcontent, Telephone Operator Rhatigan, continued to picket the institution. Director Hinenburg, fed up with labor troubles, announced that he was quitting. His new job: superintendent and medical director of the rich, peaceful sanatorium of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society at Denver...
...alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven't any such money . . . there isn't any such money in this business...
...leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their union headquarters, strikers attacked a gas machine plant where 150 deputy sheriffs were encamped. They overturned automobiles, set fire to one police car and dumped another into the river, did $15,000 damage to the plant. A truck drivers' strike...