Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protesting President Conant's prowar declarations, a group of Seniors clad in academic gowns and carrying anti-war placards will picket Massachusetts Hall for one hour daily, beginning tomorrow...
...picketing plan was proposed by John Darr '41 at a peace meeting held in Server 11 on Monday afternoon under the auspices of the Student Union, and takes its cue from the anti-war picket line which the American Peace Mobilization has conducted outside the White House in Washington for the past few weeks...
Last week a rough, tough little man with hair like a dirty cotton boll showed up at the picket line, began to march in the opposite direction. His sign read: "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." He was Abe Tikotsky, an electrical worker, once of Springfield, Ill., with a lugubrious voice and sore feet. He said: "These dopes ain't got no sense. . . ."A clean-cut youth from South Dakota, now working in the War Department, stopped by and said: "That's a wonderful thing you're doing, fella." "Fine," said Abe. "would you mind...
...week's end, Abe Tikotsky had six recruits in his picket line, marching in the opposite direction from the pickets of the American Peace Mobilization...
...union leader last week made news by marching through a picket line. It was no slip of the foot. John P. Frey, 70-year-old arch-conservative of the A.F. of L.'s conservative hierarchy, had said he would, and by gum he did. The pickets were A.F. of L. machinists who had shut down eleven San Francisco shipyards in the midst of a $500,000,000 Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking...