Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every labor-union member, a picket line is sacrosanct: he would rather see than cross one. Last week the hair on union ears bristled at a heretic's cry. Said an editorial in the Teamster, organ of the powerful Teamsters union...
...little things were his old newspaper cronies, his folks in Indiana, "That Girl" in the picket-fenced white house in Albuquerque and, above all, the desire of a shy man to move about at his own gait. After three and a half months of being lionized, he got ready to go to war again, this time to the Pacific...
...asked, "the kind of girl who wants to settle down in a little white cottage with a picket fence around...
...shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army take over, played a record...
Street Scene. In Kansas City, a labor picket, tiring of his eight months' fruitless vigil, knocked off for some deep-sea fishing off California, was treated to a farewell party by friends he had acquired...