Word: picket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picket lines were thrown around Joe Shoong's factory and Joe Shoong's three San Francisco stores. Members of A. F. of L.'s Department Store Employes' Union, with whom Joe Shoong had a closed shop agreement, refused to cross the lines. Joe Shoong's three stores closed down...
...month San Franciscans have stopped to stare idly at what, so far as anybody knows, were the first Chinese picket lines in the U. S. Last week Joe Shoong filed suit against the Ladies' Garment Workers for $500,000 damages and finally got an injunction to stop the picketing. Also, last week, the Ladies' Garment Workers applied for an injunction to stop Joe Shoong from putting signs in his windows implying that the dispute was purely jurisdictional. In addition to indignant notices saying that the pickets were C. I. O. while the clerks in the stores were...
...performance, the White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
From her office at the local Workers Alliance, Emma Tenayuca continued to pull strings with the assistance of her "gang,'' some 300 devoted followers whom she deploys with a masterly hand in picket line or mass meeting. But by week's end the strike had gone into the legal trenches with hearings, investigations, applications for injunctions and loud demands to the Governor for Texas Rangers to enforce civil liberties in San Antonio...
...Philadelphia Record's Dorothy Grafly, ablest art critic in the city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pa. plodding grimly before the various entrances. Their signs proclaimed that "New York has 36 WPA art exhibits in one week -Philadelphia only ten in a year." That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting...