Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...
...train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody...
...night last week, Irwin ("Pants") Paschon, the line's striking head timekeeper, got a telephone call at his Peoria home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
...Chase. Led by their strike boss G. F. Brown, the pickets ran to their automobiles, sped east on U.S. Route 24, which parallels the T.P. & W.'s tracks, and soon passed the rolling train. At Eureka the strikers parked near the tracks. As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones. Shotgun blasts roared from the train. No picket...
...Hamilton, Ontario, a steelworker snorted: "Winter is no time for striking! Who wants to walk a picket line when it's 20 below...