Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign "Jim Crow is NOT Democracy." He liked to lecture. "This here's no democracy," he would say pontifically, "when a fellow like me, just because he's black, can't get a job in the factories getting rich off of defense contracts." Behind the pickets the White House grounds stretched, green and rich, to the gleaming white mansion. The cop on the corner groaned at the task of protecting "them sorry sons a'bitches." (They needed protection. Recently a Marine jumped on a picket and beat him up with his belt.) A carload of Indiana...
Across the street, in an old red sandstone building, the American Peace Mobilization had its office. Some crusaders sat around a table holding a water cooler, sandwiches, a coffee pot and a row of empty milk bottles. Other crusaders played cards while waiting their turn on the picket line. On the wall was a picture of President Roosevelt, smiling as he signed the Lend-Lease Bill. Underneath was printed: "What's the joke...
...Walter Scott Neff, executive secretary of American Peace Mobilization, greeted visiting reporters royally. "We are here." he declaimed, "and here we'll stay until we've won out." One reporter walked back to the picket line with a nice-looking girl carrying a banner: "No A.E.F. for the U.S." The reporter said: "Why don't you get wise to yourself? Why waste time with these jiggs and mockies? You're smart." The pretty picket stamped her foot, tears in her eyes. "You've got a lot of room to talk," she said. "You work...
Dressed in the traditional garb of John Harvard, Barnes and Klaw will march on the "Eternal Vigil" of the American Peace Mobilization group. By joining this picket line that continually winds about the white House, they hope to show the President their determination that the United States should no participate in the present...
...State and Federal officials and international officers of the A.F. of L. charged with dirty looks and flying words. Most violent word hurler was pontifical John P. Frey, president of the A.F. of L. metal-trades department, who stormed: "If necessary I'll lead [nonstriking craftsmen] through the picket line myself to bust this strike." Back of the San Francisco machinists' sullen defiance was a tradition of autonomy, the conviction that they had the right to act without interference from the parent body. Mr. Frey's threatening attitude just made matters worse...