Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young toughs just emerging from a Boston America First meeting glanced across the street at the picket line which was carrying signs, "Wheeler Is Hitler's Stooge," and "Don't Make America Next." "Look at the collegeboys," sneered one of them. "We ought to get them down our way some time." "Never mind," the other comforted him. "We will, one of these days...
...that the two or three troublemakers who sought to show their enthusiasm for the Four Freedoms by interfering with our exercise of free speech and free assembly inside the hall, and had to be 4cd out by the police, seem to have had no connection at all with the picket line...
Muttering "keep quiet, keep moving" to prevent the provocations of American Firsters from getting under their skin, a Fight for Freedom Committee picket line paraded up and down in front of Mechanics Hall for several hours Saturday night...
While the crowd was moving inside the Hall to hear Wheeler speak on isolation, the picket line was invaded by a rival group carrying America First placards. Special instruction on non-violence given the interventionist picketers prevented a clash...
Since Boston's Police Commissioner is a member of the Fight for Freedom Committee, the picket line officials were able to gain police protection, and a lawyer was on hand in case any disturbance occured. Contrary to report, the Irish cops did not wear America First badges...