Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaker for the initial evening will be the Reverend Mr. Glen Trimble, who is now a student at the Boston University in School of Theology, and who has been active in leading picket lines and addressing mass meetings of strikers in Lawrence...
...Paterson's 20,000 silk workers only 800 answered the Red call the first day. Picket lines were formed. Police let the organizers harangue their followers in vacant lots so long as they did not block traffic. Only one stone was thrown through a factory window. By the second day the strikers' ranks numbered some 2,000. When a group of agitators crossed the city line into Clifton, N. J. and began demonstrations outside the Henry Doherty Mills, 24 of them were arrested, jailed in default of $2 fines...
...Tallapoosa County, Ala. At a rural church in the woods outside Camp Hill several hundred Negroes met furtively by night. Ostensibly they came together to form a sharecroppers' union against what they were told was the oppression of white landowners. One Ralph Gray was posted outside as a picket. Inside, the management of the meeting was taken over by a black Communist from Chattanooga. He represented, he said, the "Society for the Advancement of Colored People." He told his auditors to demand social equality and white intermarriage. If they did not get what they demanded, they were to take...
...height of the meeting Sheriff Kyle Young and his deputies arrived at the church to disperse the assembly as a menace to the white man's peace. Words passed between the sheriff and Picket Gray. A round of shots was fired in the dark. Sheriff Young and a deputy fell wounded. So did Picket Gray. From the church came a volley of fire. Deputies on the outside volleyed back. The Negroes inside the church went scampering away to cover through the night. Four of them were left behind wounded. The deputies burned the church to the ground. Later...
...condi- tions in the mining district. They were bad when I was in office before [1923-27], I arbitrated the anthracite strike and conditions were improved there. After I went out of office, conditions got worse. ... I have no power over the judges and the injunctions they grant [against picketing]. I have no power to prevent evictions [of miners from company-owned houses]. I have no power to stop the deputy sheriffs from breaking up picket lines. ... I am making an honest effort to end this trouble. . . . Operators cannot sell coal at prices people will...