Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction with his manacled hands. But Frank Brewster decided he wanted to be more than a brick-fisted mug. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, From Goon to Gent...
...Central Conference, with 500,000 members of about 340 locals in a twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even so, nearly everyone in organized labor figured that he was too smart to get into the sort of trouble that would halt his drive for Beck's job. Last week he was in just that sort of trouble...
...passed a code outlawing rackets and racketeers from its member unions, the Teamsters union began to take action on its long threatened plan to quit or at least undermine the AFL-CIO. As John O'Rourke, head of the New York local put it, his boys would cross the picket lines of those unions which "spend all their time kicking our brains...
...fact, owes most of is present gym-packing, crowd-drawing prominence to the popularity of its hot-handed pros. In turn, the pros acknowledge their debt to a roly-poly Russian immigrant named Maurice Podoloff, 66, who barely knew the difference between a pick-off play and a picket fence when he became president of the N.B.A. In ten years Podoloff has led the league out of virtual pauperhood into the promised land of big crowds and bigger bank accounts. He hits the road as often as any of the players...
United Mine Workers' aging (76) Boss John L. Lewis has generally decried, as the Devil's work, employers' injunctions to stop picketing. Picket Patriarch Lewis, however, had a familiar hot potato tossed into his own hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row, pickets from A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions challenged access to some half-dozen Liberty ships owned by American Coal Shipping, Inc. A part owner of A.C.S.: United Mine Workers. At week's end the pickets in Charleston, S.C. were gone, shooed away by court injunctions obtained while Employer Lewis...