Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mansfield Theater. With her were her secretary, Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson and a onetime youth leader, pinko Joe Lash. The play they had come to see: In Time to Come. As Mrs. Roosevelt stepped out of her cab, to her horror she came face to face with a picket line...
...President's wife would no more cross a picket line than Queen Victoria would have painted her fingernails.* She marched to the box office, turned in her tickets and got her money back. To protests that the pickets were unfair, Mrs. Roosevelt answered firmly: "Fair or not fair, I cannot cross a picket line." Pausing to point out to Band Leader Meyer Davis (who also arrived full of anticipation) that the play was being picketed, she skittered across the street to a musical, show, trailing Thompson & Lash. Mr. Davis, who has occasionally played at the White House...
...picket line which about-faced Mrs. Roosevelt belonged to the A.F. of L. musician's union, of which James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo (see p. 42) is boss. Because In Time to Come has two minutes of off-stage band music played on a phonograph, the musician's union demanded that four musicians be hired, to sit in the wings. Pay of the four do-nothing musicians would have cost Producer Otto L. Preminger $337.50 a week. Mr. Preminger tried to settle for one musician, at $112.50 a week, but the union would not agree...
...holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only a scattering from a few Pacific Coast yards responded to it. At one yard last week A.F. of L. boilermakers charged out and dispersed a straggling picket line...
...made friends outside the church as well as in. He led a picket line of 10,000 to protest the firing of six Negro doctors at Harlem Hospital, led strikes against landlords who charged Harlem's high rents. He established a committee which has picketed 125th Street stores refusing jobs to Negroes, boasts now that his committee has increased Harlem's annual income...