Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chicago newspapermen circulated the Hunter rebuttal among their friends, famed Tribune Cartoonist Carey Orr continued to picture WPA as an improvident little grasshopper, dressed in a high hat and picket sign. Aching to prove he is no grasshopper, Georgia-born, 43-year-old Howard Hunter, who has spent one-third of all Federal money allotted to WPA in the last three years, made a wisecrack worthy of Harry Hopkins by disclosing he attributes his perfect complexion to the Tribune. "My stomach functions perfectly and I never take salts," said he. "I just read the Tribune every morning...
...stores stayed open. To show that Labor can learn new tricks as quickly as Capital, the clerks warned pickets not to use even linguistic violence (words like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week...
...dock was an amiable picket. "Service certainly is faster than it used to be, ain't it, chum?" asked the picket...
Little Tough Guy (Universal) clucks its tongue sympathetically over the bitterness of a boy whose father has been convicted of murder for killing a man while helping a picket line repulse an assault by strikebreakers. But hopelessly quartered and drawn by the tugging of four wayward plot trends, it is less notable as a contribution to cinema than it is for expressing a viewpoint cinema has seldom before ventured-that there is something wrong about strikebreaking...
...would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West Coast seamen five to one). "Yoost a sailor," Lundeberg wanted to be alone. Last spring he began to "dump" East Coast seamen from West Coast ships, picket C. I. O. crews. When Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen crashed S. U. P. picket lines, the break between the Harrys was complete...