Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty Fayette mines closed down. Picket lines were formed. Deputy sheriffs shot down four strikers. Frick Coke was accused of importing gunmen from New York-a charge its president hotly denied. Strikers sniped at mine guards, nearly killed one. All the makings for an ugly labor war were at hand...
...tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour ($2.78 per week) threading and sponging pants. In Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line as a protest against the exploitation of young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine out of the pay of his child laborers whose...
...Also they told of "week end trips to New York with their bosses" which, it was understood, were compulsory on pain of losing their jobs. Leaving Northampton. Mrs. Pinchot sped to nearby Allentown where a similar strike was in progress at the Morris Freezer shirt factory. Again Picket Pinchot. waving her hat to encourage her followers, led a band round & round the plant. The walls did not fall but Morris Freezer appeared, invited Mrs. Pinchot inside to meet some of the girls still at work and "talk things over." Mrs. Pinchot hesitated, then decided: "I couldn...
...strike for higher produce prices from Sioux City to Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from busy Omaha. On seven highways leading into town they used placards, planks and palaver to turn back truckloads of milk, eggs, hogs and cattle. Sometimes a glib driver argued his way through the picket lines but not often...
Sheriff Lainson deputized 100 Council Bluffs citizens at $3.50 per day each, armed them with baseball bats and pick handles after one Claude Dail had been accidentally killed while being instructed in the operation of an automatic shotgun. Sent out to Route 34 to break up the principal picket line, deputies jostled the strikers around indecisively, cluttered the highway, halted trucks, witlessly helped the strike...