Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...
Both sides made the usual last-minute threatening gestures: the union dispatched strike rules to the locals ("There must not be any drinking on the picket lines; no elaborate meals shall be served"), and the steel companies announced that they would begin tapering off production and banking their furnaces by midweek if there was no sign of progress...
...vanished. Lawyer Roosevelt doggedly ignored the ever louder suspicion, held by the press and even the New York police, that Client Trujillo was responsible for kidnaping Galindez. "I never heard of Galindez!" Roosevelt complained on the night of April 12, when anti-Trujillo exiles in Manhattan threatened to picket a Democratic fund-raising dinner for which he was toastmaster.* In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo's kept press played up Frank Roosevelt so favorably as to suggest that Trujillo wanted association with a famed liberal name at least as much as legal advice...
...PEACEFUL PICKETS may not be punished if fellow pickets riot on the picket line, says the U.S. Court of Appeals. In a case involving strikers against the B.V.D. Co., the court overturned an NLRB decision penalizing peaceful strikers by not giving them their jobs back...