Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wobblies served notice that they would picket the building until the New Republic retracted this slur on their hero. Said New Republic Editor Michael Straight: "I am both pleased and surprised that the I.W.W. was able to muster up the manpower to picket...
When it ended 30 minutes later, 45 pickets had been carted off to the police station and a dozen participants hurt. (Among the injured: a plain-clothes man who was mistaken for a picket by the cops and soundly slugged...
Next day, 500 policemen patrolled the block around the Stock Exchange and there was no more trouble. The American Civil Liberties Union deplored the "lie-down," saying: "By completely denying the right of access to and from the ... Stock Exchange, the pickets abused their lawful right to picket." But it also found "little or no justification for the club-wielding tactics of the police...
Police tried to force a mass picket line of 150 members of Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union to observe a ruling limiting demonstrators to three at each Club entrance. A short fracas and arrests followed, but no injuries were reported...
...Colorful picket line activities have included circulation of a pamphlet stating that the Club had "betrayed" former Harvard President Eliot's affirmation of union rights on collective bargaining...