Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picket lines had a concrete effect on several C. I. O. delivery truck drivers who refused to deliver the goods out of sympathy with their fellow union members, and two Law professors registered their protest against the University by calling off their classes for the duration of the strike...
...Professor Fred Rodell posted a notice stating, "I have determined to my complete satisfaction that the Union is a bona fide Union representing a clear majority of the service employees, and run neither by Communists nor by racketeers. I therefore intend to respect its picket line. There will be no class in intimation today...
Diplomatically, Russia and the democracies had come a pleasurable full circle. Franklin Roosevelt had squinted up his eyes, looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
What happened, according to hardworking, pacific Mr. Davis, not only upset his plan but threatened the future course of labor mediation: The picket line dispersed; the company took some strikers back, but failed to give them their old jobs. Upshot: union men walked out again...
...Picket lines sprang up once more, and C.I.O. leaders threatened to call a sympathetic strike among aircraft plants in the five eastern States. Out of patience, Washington sent Colonel Roy M. Jones, two other Army officers to Bendix to see that the Board's recommendations were carried...