Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the political picket lines, the University did rather well during the War the Liberal Union functioned throughout on a reduced but active membership. The HLU added a publication, The Progressive, to its activities in 1944, and brought it from a mimeographed bulletin to a monthly printed magazine, at the same time sponsoring a series of forums with the Boston Metropolitan Council of Colleges, and occasionally working actively with the Political Action Committee...
Back in the days when a picket line bordered upon open revolution, the turbulent Wobblies and their hulking, emotional prophet, Big Bill Haywood, scattered dreams of industrial uprising through dark East Coast mills and the rough timberlands of the West. Police cracked their heads and vigilantes attacked their halls as citadels of anarchy...
Smartness v. Popularity. Although Reuther's men were still on the picket line, the G.M. strikers' ranks were solidly behind his last-ditch fight. But it would take more than the backing of G.M. workers to loft him into the union presidency. Admittedly smart, Reuther, like many a smart man before him, was not universally loved...
...Philadelphia plant had made-no effort to get some 1,000 nonunion, nonstriking employes through the picket lines. The union had permitted daily passage of maintenance workers. The company had asked and obtained an injunction against mass picketing. Lawful picketing went on as it had before...
When milkwagon drivers refused to cross their fellow workers' picket line at a Detroit dairy, one sorrel horse grew tired of waiting and set off alone...