Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamilton Standard Propellers Division of the United Aircraft Corp. Chief demand: a 30% pay increase. After weeks of negotiations the company made its final offer and flatly announced it would reopen the plant on Aug. 7. Union officials did not accept the terms, but 800 employes crossed the picket line and went back to work. Previously overstaffed, the company mailed layoff notices...
...Connersville, Ind., the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers threw a picket line around the Rex Manufacturing Co. during a jurisdictional dispute with ari A.F.L. union. When the picketers began keeping office workers out, city officials called for State troops, which quickly broke up the picket line. The U.S. Conciliation Service reported last week that all 1,600 employes are back at work...
Most tangible U.S. result of Quadragesimo Anno is the growing Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, founded in 1937 to promote good unionism among Catholic workers and good Catholicism among unionists. Individual priests, like Pittsburgh's rambunctious Father Charles Rice, have marched in picket lines and attacked the bosses as ardently as any card-holding Communist. But as to the general labor attitude of the working priesthood, there have been few reliable straws in the wind. Last week, trend spotters had one to chew...
Working as a newly-formed committee called the Cambridge Council for Price Control, the delegates from University and town groups planned a parade between Central and Harvard Squares during the buyers' strike. Public attention will be roused by leaflet distribution, a sound truck and a roving picket line. A delegation will visit Representative Curley to urge passage of the OPA bill...
...impressed and worried Hollywood was the way Sorrell dodged the jurisdictional trouble which turned C.S.U.'s strike a year ago into a shambles (TIME, Oct. 22). At one point it looked as if the A.F.L.'s International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees would cross Sorrell's picket lines and either 1) break the strike or 2) force the studios to shut down to avoid picket-line bloodshed...