Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...Paul Revere Sentinels, "George Pagnanelli" went to Washington to sabotage passage of the Lend-Lease bill. Mothers' Movement Führine Elizabeth Dilling and "a wild, milling mob of women" welcomed him. "My thundering herd," she screamed, "how do you like it? . . . Come on, mothers. Let's picket the Senate Building...
Harold Ross, picket-toothed editor of The New Yorker, read in Exquisite Lucius Beebe's rococo column that he was shy a front tooth. Ross wrote in reply that he had all his front teeth, had a whopping gap between two of them, had refused his dentist's suggestion that it be filled in. Cried Ross to Beebe: ". . . You are making an eccentric...
...Miners Are United. That morning the whistles had blown at all the mines. Nowhere was there a picket line; nowhere disorder, nowhere any coal mined. The miners waited for news...
When Carey announced his intention to speak at the Temple meeting, cherry-red Joe Curran, head of the Maritime Union, promptly threatened to throw a picket line around the meeting. Carey dared him to try. Other Party Line followers in C.I.O. (the C.P. is strong in the Fur Workers Union, the Transport Workers, some locals of the U.A.W., the Aluminum Workers and the Newspaper Guild) fumed in silence. But for the vast majority of C.I.O. Jim Carey had cleared the air, had shown that friendship for Russia is one thing, Communism something else again. Said he last week in Washington...