Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five hundred glum pickets ring the plants of the big-four packing houses. Wrapped in heavy clothing, they huddle around bonfires, crowd into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
There were new picketing techniques. In North Andover, Mass., mounted steelworkers rode horseback in front of the Davis & Furber Machine Co. carrying signs: "Let's Share Profits." In Los Angeles, a returned veteran dressed up in a Luftwaffe uniform and German gas mask to picket Consolidated Steel...
After watching some 50 shivering steel pickets march through the slush, Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from higher up. The company knows it's not our fault...
...stepped balding Director Roger N. Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union, staunch defender of labor's rights, to give labor a stern warning. Unions, he said, must stop abusing the right to picket by such tactics as the use of force and mass picketing which deny the right of management, maintenance crews and office workers to enter struck plants...
...only 8,000 men-members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers, who install switchboard equipment for the Bell System. They wanted a long-sought raise of $6 a week, plus a promise to negotiate a postwar increase. When their demands were turned down, they walked out, threw a picket line around any telephone exchange they found handy. Most of the 25,000 long-lines operators and some local operators refused to cross the line...