Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to stand rock-solid until the strike began to crumble. The first chunk had broken off when two Chicago affiliates kicked over the traces and returned for a $4-a-week raise. Then four independent New York unions settled for the same figure and went back through N.F.T.W. picket lines. When N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne conceded the end of his hopes for an industry-wide settlement and disbanded his National Policy Committee, the 30-day walkout collapsed with a resounding crash...
...Only the pickets themselves and the oldest regulars remembered the beginning of 73-year-old Jim's falling-out with the National Union of Vintners, Grocers and Allied Trades. That had been back in March 1939. There had been some unpleasantness over a foreman's pay, and the union lads in the bar (there were four of them at the time) had pulled out and set up a picket line. Two of them had quit since then (one to join the British Navy), but the other two, young Con Cusack and Paddo Young, had stuck it out. Every...
Union barmen all over Dublin have chipped in two shillings a week to keep up Paddo's and Con's wages, and the pickets have seemed happy enough in their new jobs. There is a hoary old sign in Downey's window: "Hello, Paddo," it says. "Standard Rate of Wages Paid Here to All Employees." And that's the truth. But with Jim it's a matter of principle. And so the pickets pace, while Jim worries about them. Last March, Jim was out there in the snow sweeping off the sidewalk "so the boys...
...N.F.T.W., which had started without sufficient strength, money or appreciation of the company's ability to keep the phones going, was desperately sending up trial balloons. It would be glad to take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
Minutes before the deadline-6 a.m., Easter Monday-Schwellenbach's last appeal was spurned. In Manhattan's dawn Miss Eileen McDonnell removed her headset, took the elevator down to the street and picked up a picket sign. Across the country, by time zones, galloped Mr. Mayer's horse. At 9 a.m., E.S.T., workers quit the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. offices in Los Angeles and for the first time in history a telephone walkout was nationwide...