Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Beck-a man who has never been known to brawl himself-used violence as calculatingly as a general uses artillery. His teamsters could take care of themselves on almost any picket line. At one time he announced that hundreds of them were being trained in jujitsu and boxing for the sake of their health...
...National Labor Relations Board this week told U.S. labor unions some of the things they can & cannot do on a picket line. In general they cannot try to prevent those who want to work from working. The unanimous rulings were the first of their kind under the Taft-Hartley law. Some of the new rules of etiquette...
...engine trouble but labor trouble that threatened Pilot Baker with a crash landing. For six months this year most of his regular employees were out on strike. His clerks left when he insisted on his right to subcontract clerical work. Then mechanics refused to cross the clerks' picket lines. His pilots walked out after Baker fired one of them when his plane crashed. Baker hired a new staff and kept his planes flying, but he could no longer make his airline pay, especially as travelers were leary of his new help. Even after the clerks returned to work...
...have none of it. He would have no strings attached to his hiring halls. And, if the Supreme Court should rule them illegal, that would .be the end of any contract with Harry Bridges. When the shipowners rejected his demands, Bridges stalked out, flung back: "See you on the picket lines tomorrow...
Last week, after the election, Univis reopened, gave an 11?-an-hour raise to returning workers. The union retaliated by drawing "observers"' from other C.I.O. unions to strengthen its picket lines...