Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's LaGuardia Field, striking pilots kept tabs from an automobile parked near the runway; but a picket line surrounded maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...
...Stayed away from the wedding of Henry Wallace's pretty daughter, Jean (see MILESTONES). Mr. Truman said he never went to these affairs. Mrs. Truman went, joining Mr. & Mrs. Wallace, Claude Pepper and others in crossing a picket line around the Wardman Park Hotel, where service employes were on strike...
...strikers were demanding not higher pay, as the Duke thought, but union recognition ot their Union of General and Municipal Workers. Recalling the recent triumph of organized labor at Buckingham Palace (TIME, June 3), one banner in the Savoy Hotel's picket line proclaimed: "What's good enough for the royal household should be good enough for the Savoy...
...along, still harassed by the strike of 3,500 employes of the Duquesne Light Co. (TIME, Oct. 7). There was no violence. Pittsburgh just suffered, got along with barely adequate power, depended on autos for transportation; A.F.L. trolley and bus drivers still refused to cross the Duquesne workers' picket lines. Some 100,000 people were thrown out of work. Only hope for a settlement on the 13th day of the strike: Government seizure of Duquesne Light...
...A.F.L. seamen refused to go through C.I.O. seamen picket lines...