Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad theories in frequent dissents were disappointed. In the newly begun battle between organized labor and the corporations, Justice Holmes dissented from his colleagues only twice in seven years. In the next five years he delivered two stirring dissents upholding workingmen's right to strike and form picket lines...
...Ward's mammoth mail-order and retail stores along the Chicago River, where the employes were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer" by strikers (see cut). Ward's was mum, but stricken. A.F. of L. teamsters, in sympathy with the strikers, refused to pick up or deliver to the stores. The U.S. Post Office withdrew 30 idling mail clerks who normally handle Ward's outgoing...
...management "hit the sawdust trail together." Both groups, he declared, are guilty of "seven deadly sins": monopolistic practices to crush competitors; autocratic leadership; failure to make proper financial accounting to members, employes and the public; too many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make more jobs and make them last longer. Root cause of this evil is fear of layoffs; management must try to give its workers...
Trespassers in U.S. waters have become so scarce that the Navy is pulling down its picket fence. In the first broad demobilization of equipment since the war began, more than half the 2,200 fishing and pleasure craft converted for emergency antisub patrol early in the war have now been returned to their private owners...
...pickets, joined by A.F. of L. printers from the World-Telegram composing room, circled the building for two hours, chanting: "We're out to win the war, what the hell is Pegler for?" Then an N.M.U. committee tramped to the office of Lee B. Wood, World-Telegram executive editor, handed him a statement which protested the "vile, Nazi-like statements by ... Westbrook Pegler." When Editor Wood had no comment, he was threatened by an N.M.U. spokesman: "You people better watch out. If you don't remove this guy you'll have more than picket lines around this...