Word: picketeers
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Twenty demonstrators showed up at Willard Straight Hall--the Cornell student union--to picket the presence of CIA recruiter Jim Fitzgerald, who had to leave the scene nearly one hour before the Career Fair was scheduled...
...original midnight settlement deadline passed, at least 300 professors led by the group Faculty for a Fair Contract had made arrangements to teach today's classes off-campus to avoid anticipated picket lines...
...plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence of stench, but not without some dissension. Jasper, demanding cash that Alice does not have, lashes out: "While you play house and gardens, pouring money away on rubbish, the Cause has to suffer, do without...
...miners struck last Oct. 1 after Massey and several other firms rejected an industry agreement, hundreds of injuries have resulted from rock throwings, dynamitings and assaults. West Virginia state police have spent about $750,000 in extra manpower to try to keep peace. Said a miner in the picket line at Massey's Sprouse Creek processing plant in Lobata, W. Va.: "If something isn't done real soon to end the strike, there is going to be a lot more violence...
...technical workers walked out of their jobs at the end of September after wage, benefit and job security negotiations broke down. Food service and maintenance workers of AFL-CIO Local 35 later joined the strike, which soon attracted national attention. Yale University dining halls and libraries closed, students picketed with workers, and faculty members moved classes off campus so as not to break picket lines. The university and the union representing Yale's clerical and technical workers, AFL-CIO Local 34, ended the strike at the end of January with a contract that hiked wages 35 percent over a three...