Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair. Mrs. Thayer thought Ramon, with a little polishing, might do for her Marjorie, but as Marjorie. lately seduced by Harry Baumann, shrank from the idea. Mrs. Thayer took him herself. Harry, tired of familiar sensations, joined the strikers; got a brand-new sensation when he went on the picket-line and was beaten up before policemen recognized him. As the months wore on and the strike continued, public opinion went more & more against the strikers. Kicked out of their rented headquarters, they built their own shack. One night a citizens' committee, headed by the chief of police, made...
...house that looked less dilapidated than most and asked to be put up for the night. Next morning she donned a disguise of old clothes, made her face up to look peaked and hungry. Very soon she found she could dispense with such makeup. She joined the picket line of strikers, went with a delegation of the Young Communist League to Pittsburgh to beg for money, attended strike committee meetings at the relief station. In the first family she stayed with the men were scabs. One day, dressed in overalls, her hair cropped short under a cap, she went with...
...pharmaceutical concerns buy them favorable publicity from almost every news organ they care to patronize. When the Tugwell-Copeland pure food and drug bill, demanding honest advertising, comprehensible analyses of each product on every label, was introduced in Washington early last December, the machine set to work to picket its trough. They were so successful that many of the magazines and newspapers in which they took space to ballyhoo their panaceas actually backed them in their concerted attack against this measure. From appeals to the rights of man as stated in the Constitution to tearful notes to General Johnson claiming...
...militiamen were allowed to swear in as special deputies. There were approximately 1,000 deputies throughout the State, of which not more than 200 actively participated in quelling the strike. Milo Reno, prime agitator of the farm holiday movement, characterized as "preposterous" his colleagues' claim that 250,000 pickets were posted throughout the Corn Belt. He put total picket strength...
Early next morning 400 strikers gathered at the Gates mine of the Frick company, 15 mi. from, Uniontown. Six mine bosses followed by a few maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George...