Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would first have to show they had ability." Then for the press the convening seers prophesied: continued Recovery, a "happy" U. S. until 1941, a 4-to-3 World Series victory for the New York Yankees, re-election of President Roosevelt. At pains to be diplomatic, President Perota hedged: "But according...
...across the Morningside campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke. The University's 160-pound boxing champion and president-elect of the Junior...
...Berkeley, Calif., longshoremen refused to unload a cargo of copra from Portland California Steamship's freighter Admiral Nulton because they would have to pass through the picket lines of the striking Warehousemen's Union to reach...
Striking for recognition of the American Newspaper Guild and better working conditions, 29 editorial workers walked out of the newsrooms of William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News last February. The management slipped enough writers through the picket lines to fill the News's columns. The mechanical staff stuck by its contracts and jobs. Guildmen circularized and picketed News advertisers & subscribers. Now, after six months, they claim that they have managed to reduce News circulation some 50%, appreciably curtail advertising lineage. Nevertheless, the Milwaukee Wisconsin News continues to appear on the newsstands six afternoons a week...
...appear on newsstands at all last week. When local members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William...