Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...
...Breakoff. But that did not end it. Just as WSB had predicted, as A.F.L. seamen walked off the picket lines, N.M.U. seamen-who had honored the A.F.L. strike-rushed in. A.F.L. yelled wrathfully and in some cases A.F.L. longshoremen crossed the rival lines. But Joe Curran's N.M.U., repudiating its two-month-old contract, understandably demanded just as much as A.F.L...
...boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...
...Elko Photo Products Co., a 24-year-old A.F.L. cabdriver named Harvey Warner paid the penalty for modern blasphemy. Arm in arm with striking A.F.L. women workers, Penitent Warner paraded his shame for two eight-hour shifts, draped in an accusing sign: "I am a heel. I crossed a picket line...
Crossed Fingers. Nor had the Government's "break-the-strike" tactics eased the tension. To Hamilton, Ont., where strikers were maintaining a strong picket line around the Stelco (Steel Co. of Canada) plant, went some 400 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Ontario provincial police. Their announced job was to keep materials and men who wanted to work moving into the plant. Across Canada, organized labor protested. At Hamilton, picketers defiantly said they would resist police interference. At week's end the police were still judiciously keeping hands off. But worried Hamiltonians walked on tiptoe, kept their fingers crossed...