Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, bespectacled, studiously slangy Father Rice, 31, helped found the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh on May Day 1937. This somewhat over-named organization threw its weight to C.I.O., got into many a picket line. It also opened St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, in a dirty, barnlike, abandoned orphanage in a slum. With a permanent staff of 40 indigent men who try to keep the place clean and run its kitchen, the House today serves 1,000 plain meals twice a day, shelters 600 men at night...
...dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters, cooks, busboys, et al., who joined Mike Boyle's picket line on April...
Four hours a day, six days a week thereafter, paid pickets patrolled the Edgewater Beach. The hotel continued to do business, A. F. of L. musicians continued to play inside. Strikers forgot what the strike was about, their unions spent $300,000 in picket wages. As suddenly and mysteriously as it began, the long strike ended last week at terms "satisfactory to all concerned." The terms (according to Edgewater Beach Manager William Dewey): no recognition, no rehiring, no more pay, nothing for the strikers except a good rest...
...Japan's Yeddo Bay, one afternoon, puffed two preposterous paddle frigates-Mississippi and Susquehanna-and two sloops-of-war-Plymouth and Saratoga. The former were the first steamships ever to appear in Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...