Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picket line in front of L'Humanité was rushed by 350 members of a Comité de Défense de L'Humanitè, a fancy name for a gang of thugs hired by L'Humanité's circulation department. After a brief battle, the pickets (about half of whom were members of the Communist Party) beat off L'Humanité's defenders. In similar cases capitalist publishers would be likely to charge that the strike was led by Communists. L'Humanité could not do that. Its friends said the strike was led by Trotskyites...
...thunderstruck strikers, members of the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, hurried outside. Sure enough, their picket line had melted away. There was no longer a Philadelphia Record for them to picket. Tired of a fight that nobody seemed able to win, impulsive, New Dealing Publisher J. David Stern had shut up shop and sold out. The buyer: conservative Robert McLean, head of the rich Evening Bulletin and president of the Associated Press...
...natural that Father Ambrose should be interested in labor. "My people are all labor people," he says. "I know their problems and I know the conditions under which they work. . . . When my people go on a picket line in a strike, I go with them because I am one of them...
Last week, seated at a desk piled high with administrative work, he sighed. It had been simpler on the picket line. Besides, it was hard to take a healthy swig of water without losing the abbot's skullcap...
...Nelda Sloan, 18 and a student in journalism, got her Antioch-approved job as a $22-a-week copy boy on the Philadelphia Record, and joined the American Newspaper Guild. Ten days later the Guild struck the Record. Last week Freshman Nelda was in her sixth week on the picket line. Antioch assured her that her picketing would be counted toward her credits...