Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago strikers at the plumbing plant of Kohler of Kohler had agreed to let a carload of coal pass their picket lines into the plant every two or three days. If they had not, Kohler Co. would have had to shut down its steam pumping plant and the model village which Walter Jodok Kohler built for his workmen would have been left without a drop of water. But last week, in spite of the agreement, strike pickets halted the engine, forced it to chuff back to Sheboygan with its car of coal...
Village President Anton Brotz of Kohler village promptly swore in 75 special deputies, had the engine return with the coal car. His deputies forced a way through the picket lines, escorted the coal into the Kohler plant. Three hundred more deputies were sworn in. Mad clean through, the strikers summoned reinforcements from Sheboygan and neighboring towns...
Last week Kohler was ablaze with gorgeous hollyhocks and its first serious labor trouble. Upwards of 1,000 pickets, holding their line with a stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
...This time their demands were for higher pay and the right to have their union speak for "inside workers'' as well as the actual drivers of trucks. Pay might have been compromised but the question of representing inside workers was a sticking point. After two days peaceful picketing during which only milk, ice, beer, bread and fuel were delivered, wholesale merchants demanded police convoys to resume food deliveries. A picket truck blocked the path of a produce truck convoyed by twelve police cars. Police opened fire with riot guns. One policeman jumped the strikers' running board...
...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor?a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...