Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still walking a picket line in Bayonne, N. J. at week's end were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
...Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their complaints: Mr. Gideonse once entered a restaurant through a picket line...
Next day, Brooklyn's radicals began to picket President Gideonse's home and office, by telephone. Their calls jammed his office switchboard, got him out of bed at home at 2 in the morning. Pickets also sent President Gideonse telegrams, had them delivered in dead of night. Said one, scaring Mrs. Gideonse out of her wits...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
Seven schools and colleges of the Boston area will also send representations to protest against the rally, including Wellesley, Simmons, Radcliffe, Tufts, and M. I. T. Ten local trade unions, both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., will join the picket line as well as delegates from the Y. W. C. A., the Cambridge high schools, the Women's Neighborhood League of Cambridge, and the Pacifist League...