Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master pact to pay $1.12 and could not pay more if they wanted to, without violating their contract with OPM. But the machinists particularly wanted to force Bethlehem to sign the master agreement. They struck. Out with them went C.I.O. machinists from the other side of the Bay. Picket lines stopped other, nonstriking craftsmen, and eleven Bay yards were tight shut...
...opening salve of their Spring Peace Offensive, the Harvard Student Union will organize a "Peace Picket Line" in the Yard this noon to vociferously protest the war stand taken by F.D.R., President Conant, and the Administration...
Police kept the picket lines in motion, but declined to interfere with their activity. Th Ambassador made no comment...
...week illuminated dangers ahead. In Middle River, Md., C.I.O. workers in the huge Glenn L. Martin Co. plant walked out, called a strike. In spite of the strike call, most of the employes (members of a union which C.I.O. leaders said was company-dominated) stayed on, disregarding a skimpy picket line...
...past among popular women's colleges, and deservedly so. It seems sad that it faces the prospect of becoming number one No-man's-land, unless the boys take to the unlikely alternative of tricycles. The situation seems to call for nothing less drastic than a College picket around the courthouse...