Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mill shouting: "Strike!" Work stopped. About midnight, after leaders of C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers had asked to go into the plant to try to make peace, and Ford officials had said No, the union officially called a plantwide strike. Union men marched out through the gates, formed picket lines in the streets and drew up barricades of automobiles...
...Whitney Double Wasp engines. The Blitz buggies had already begun to roll off the assembly line, but the new $22,000,000 plant to house production of the aircraft engines was still abuilding. Work on it ceased when A.F. of L. construction workers refused to venture past the C.I.O. picket lines...
...voice and the fact that he knows the words to the tunes. For whenever I hear him on a record, I can't help thinking of a sort of easygoing bum walking down a side street, leisurely kicking at stones in the road, occasionally running a stick along a picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like. It's as if he chanced to be walking by the studio when some-one poked his head out of the door and said, "Hey, you. Carmen Lombardo just...
...Bethlehem, Pa.,police charged picket lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths. Men battled before the Harvester plant in Richmond, Ind. Strikers and police split each other's heads, fought with clubs, tear gas, pitchforks, baseball bats, brickbats. In riot's wake was a debris of hospitalized citizens, overturned autos, damaged property and partially shut defense plants...
Relations between the four labor members of the board were not improved this week when A. F. of L. workers, protected by police, streamed through a C. I. O. picket line around International Harvester's McCormick plant in Chicago...