Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klux Klansmen have paraded around Florida lately, dispensing their old nativist bile and giving a bad name to an argument (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS, the picket signs say) that has more thoughtful and respectable proponents. The New Republic's columnist, TRB, a voice of intelligent liberalism, writes with some truculence: "Sooner or later, America must face reality. It is going to be painful ... The trouble is that huddled masses need jobs. The American frontier (worse luck) is gone." The American ideal of endless hospitality and refuge presupposed perpetually expanding resources. Now, says the argument, an emerging order of scarcity mandates...
...seat on the Chrysler board is a major milestone for the U.A.W., which organized auto-industry workers 45 years ago after a series of bloody picket-line battles with the major car companies. Nonetheless, Eraser's appointment has drawn little support from either corporate executives or other labor union leaders. Scoffed General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy: "It makes as much sense as having a member of GM's management sitting on the board of an international union." Some rank-and-file members of Eraser's own union remain suspicious about his getting too close to management...
Manos said the organizers of the protest were not in favor of legal action against the Quincy House Film Society, and had not filed the legal complaints that led to the students' arrests. The group had organized only an informational picket and a boycott of the movie, she added...
...respond as community members and consumers would respond to any business to which they morally object. We can boycott. Picket. Create enough noise and pressure so that anyone wishing to attend realizes the choice he or she is making is not only one of "what to do Friday night," but a moral and political choice...
...Town News cashiers yesterday declined to comment on how the picketing affected business. Leslie A. Sullivan, one of District 65's chief organizers, said yesterday the picket line had turned away about 50 per cent of the newsstand's business...