Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
...Wells and Winch, claimed they had cut deliveries to the brewery's 370 pubs by one-third. With three weeks still to go before Easter, Alf's sporting friend offered to pay off the bet and forget the whole business. But Alf, taking his turn on the picket line, turned the offer down cold. "After all," he said, and his fellow strikers agreed, "it's the principle of the thing. A man has a right to grow a beard any time he wants...
...York State Labor Relations Board forbade Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. to make good on a promise to give triple pay to 3,000 employees as a reward for crossing a picket line...
...Ruhr's third successive week of strikes for more food, there were no banners, no picket lines, no disorders. At Duisburg, Mülheim and Dinslaken, 50,000 workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
Unfair. In Detroit, Striker John Moser asked a judge to order his boss to stop trying to hypnotize him while he was trying to picket...