Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn out to be just a case of getting milk from contented cows, with a few getting the cream off the top." The Communist attitude was exemplified last week when burly, bald, scowling Robert Minor, the party's current nominee for Mayor of New York, attempted to picket a Brooklyn furniture factory in defiance of an injunction. Super-solemn Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades...
...Portland, Ore., during a strike, a woman picket marched up & down in front of Mrs. Myrtle Michos' restaurant. Mrs. Michos sent for Willis R. Willey, 48, a huge, hairy farmer of Spokane, Wash., who is famed in the Northwest for his consistent refusal to wear anything but a sun visor and shorts. Last week a mixed jury found Farmer Willey guilty of disorderly conduct. His offense: Walking up & down beside the woman picket to embarrass...
...mighty cheer was his answer. The local leaders trooped out to their men, ordered the last 12,000 of them back to work on the morrow. Picket lines melted away. Governor Pinchot recalled his guardsmen from the coal fields. NRA was safely over its biggest hurdle to date...
...most of them are Republicans, they felt politically stranded without a friend at Democratic court. They knew their old hard-fisted methods of fighting a strike with armed guards would not put their men back to work this time. Therefore the mine guards slouched at their posts while strike pickets romped all over company property, bearing U. S. flags, singing, jeering the guards. One picket was shot dead by irate deputy sheriffs, three others were severely wounded, two dozen others slightly injured. Scores of boisterous strikers were arrested for dis orders. And still the strike spread. General Johnson headed into...
...same remedy he successfully used week before in the Lansdale hosiery strike: let the sheriff withdraw his deputies and turn their job over to the State police. Sheriff Hackney refused, whereupon Governor Pinchot marched his soldiers into the county. Said he: "The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully and to assemble in meetings. . . . The mine operators have a right to protection of their property. The National Guard will protect the rights of miners, mine operators and citizens generally. It is impartial and will remain...