Word: picketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...action on the previously announced decision on whether to picket the Club 100, which has been accused of refusal to admit Negro patrons, has been postponed until a meeting of the all-College Committee against Discrimination tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the group, announced last night...
With the boycott now invoked, the Committee is left with the third recommendation made on Wednesday evening-- that of setting up a picket line outside the Club--as their last method of putting pressure on the Club 100. Present plans call for the decision as to whether or not the picket line shall be established to come sometime Sunday evening
...Head. Meanwhile the House Education and Labor Committee got an odd lesson in semantics. The United Auto Workers' Robert Buse, leader of the ten-month-old Allis-Chalmers strike, admitted that he, and "everybody else on the picket line," had signed a nominating petition for a Communist candidate for governor of Wisconsin. But then he coolly denied that he was a Communist himself, or that his Local 248 was Communist...
...teachers had not thought of themselves as union labor: only 500 had joined either the A.F.L. or C.I.O. teachers' unions (which supported, but did not declare, the strike). Buffalo's walkout was the work of the independent Buffalo Teachers Federation, which insisted even on the picket line that it was a "professional association" and not a union...
Publisher Sherman H. Bowles (cousin of ex-OPA Boss Chester), whose four Springfield, Mass., newspapers have been on strike since last fall, crashed a picket line to deliver copies of his strike-crippled Daily News, wound up in police court. Publisher Bowles had the enterprise to pilot a delivery truck himself, lacked the foresight to carry a driver's license. Fine...