Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
Except here & there a stray picket...
Adopting new tactics in their three-week-old walkout against the Cambridge Yellow Cab Company, strikers are now organizing a corps of student pickets who "picket by telephone...
...picket committee claims that the company's business has fallen off by 90 per cent since the strike began, and they hope that it will not be necessary to stay out on strike during the lucrative commencement week...
...Labor Committee of the Student Union has taken an active part in the arrangements for the picket line, and raising money for the strikers...