Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What does a striker on the picket line think about? Orrin Cromwell Evans thought about comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...
...America, which had struck the Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...
...clock one morning last week, 20,000 Western Electric installation men tore up their picket signs and went back to work for an 11½? hourly raise. The six-week-old telephone strike, dead in spirit since the operators capitulated three weeks ago, was also dead in fact...
...ranking bid to steal the show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...
...increase of $4.40, and the rush was on. Freed from policy-committee control, locals signed up all across the Midwest; with Southern Bell; with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone in Maryland. By week's end nearly 50% of the strikers had agreed to weekly wage boosts averaging $3 to $4. Picket lines of Western Electric installation men still kept most of them from the job, still prolonged the official end of the strike, but for the N.F.T.W. it was all over...