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Patrons of the comedy club Catch a Rising Star were greeted at the door last week with serious business--a picket line of former employees handing out flyers urging the boycott of the establishment...
...creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
Approximately 20 union members come to campus daily to picket OIT. The electricians also pass out pamphlets that describe pyramid's and Christakis's practices as " immoral and unfair" and accuse the companies of seeking "profits at the expense of employees...
...which 10 steelworkers were shot by Pinkerton security guards at Andrew Carnegie's factory just outside town. Readers burned papers, and advertisers displayed signs proclaiming that they were not doing business with the newspaper company. Even Mayor Sophie Masloff canceled her subscriptions. After two days of fighting on the picket lines, vandalizing of trucks and a march on Pittsburgh Press headquarters by 3,000 demonstrators, the company agreed to stop publishing the papers. The next day, both sides met with federal mediators...
...last days of a week filledwith sit-ins and student strike, members of theCoalition for Civil Rights walk picket lines andhold a vigil to protest the paucity of women andminorities on the Law School faculty...