Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electrician came around and took the neon beer sign out of the flyspecked windows. Somehow, it seemed, Sam had betrayed free enterprise. An organization of restaurant owners muttered that Sam might not be cutting his beer, but he was cutting his throat. The Bartenders Union threw a picket line in front of the place because it was nonunion...
...mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
...strike, and the coffins began to pile up at Calvary. After burial services, the coffins were laid down in shallow uncovered trenches. Last week when the number of unburied dead topped 1,000, the cardinal called out his seminarians. Tightlipped, he rode his gravediggers through the cemetery's picket line, while a silent union man respectfully touched his hat to his cardinal arch bishop. It was a serious decision that the cardinal had made. Many a Catholic union man was troubled and angry at the sight of the young strikebreakers who would soon be priests-many of them pastors...
...Pegler found a silver lining. "We have had two salutary killings within the last year," Pegler wrote, in which strikebreakers were acquitted of murder charges after shooting two pickets. Said he, with satisfaction: "[Each] got his picket . . . Henceforth, the good citizen under such attack . . . will have a right to pick a picket and shoot him in the head...
...Picket Parade. Pianist Gieseking had asked for a U.S. visa in Paris, and got it. He was cleared by the U.S. Military Government two years ago. Since then he has played for U.S. troops in Germany, been acclaimed for his music in Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy. He arrived at New York City's International Airport, smiling and confident. Asked his U.S. managers: "Walter, is everything all set? Are you free to go wherever you want?" Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.), cherub-faced Pianist Gieseking beamed: "Everything is set, so far as I know...