Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a week of pushing through militant picket lines to get to class, fending off soggy leaflets, standing in the rain for hours at mass rallies to find out what was going on, straining to hear professors over the noise of the amplified strike pleas echoing through the campus, and being called obscene names by hippies when I tried to buy a sandwich at the cafeteria, I decided that this would be a nicer place to get an education if Mario Savio would stop bugging us. Has anybody thought of drafting...
Some 500 students -- mostly freshmen -- hung James Craft, dean of men, in effigy in the Men's Quadrangle, and then stampeded toward the women's residence. They tore down a picket fence, they destroyed a plywood wall built around the site of construction of a fine arts building, but it took only two squad cars and four policemen to stop them short of the women's dorm...
...anti-Viet Nam, anticonscription group called the Draft Information Committee set up a table next to the Navy recruiters. Campus police ordered it removed. A crowd appeared, including Savio and Communist Student Bettina Aptheker. A fist fight broke out between two students, which drew more spectators. Some set up picket lines around the Navy table, then sprawled on the floor when police said picketing inside was illegal...
Over the years, Eaton expanded the original Forest Lawn to 317 acres, opened new ones in Hollywood Hills, Cypress and Covina. But not without opposition. When his plans for Covina became known, outraged residents rushed out to picket, carrying signs reading "Drop Dead Elsewhere" and "Land of the Free or Home of the Grave?" Overnight, Eaton's men buried six bodies in the property-the exact number necessary, under California law, to constitute a cemetery...
...picketing was never wholly successful. There is always an available supply of unskilled agricultural labor and most of the Mexican-Americans, knowing nothing of American labor history, felt no compunction about crossing the picket lines. The Delano Record, the town's conservative bi-weekly newspaper, and the California Farmer, the grower's newspaper, referred to the union as Communist-dominated. Berkeley students who came down to Delano to help in the Huelga were quickly labelled "outside agitators." The Catholic bishop in Fresno, at first a Huelga sympathizer, turned against the strike and claimed that the people were not being honestly...