Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magna Carta, "perhaps went too far one way just as I think the Taft-Hartley Act goes' too far the other way. I never went on strike in my life, never ordered anyone else to run a strike in my life, never had anything to do with a picket line." The audience applauded, but the spirit of comradeship lasted only a moment...
...LINE PILOTS Association may be expelled from the A.F.L. because pilots have been crossing picket lines during the International Association of Flight Engineers' strike against United Airlines. The A.F.L.'s National Executive Council has suspended the Pilots Association and will recommend its expulsion at the next A.F.L. convention...
...sidewalks outside glossy showrooms from Manhattan to New Rochelle last week the strikers, impeccable in well-tailored flannels and natty topcoats, picketed discreetly, almost sheepishly. There were no catcalls or other disturbances when customers violated the gentlemanly picket lines. Even those intrepid customers who bought new Cadillacs found they might have to wait for delivery. Members of the city's Cadillac delivery service were out, honoring the picket lines...
...executives became a team working toward a mutual goal. After a year, the Adamson Co. was five times as profitable as in the old days; even after sharing the productivity savings 50-50, management still reaped twice as much income. As for the workers, a union veteran of many picket lines told Scanlon: "Joe, I can't fight here. I'd be fighting myself...
Working nights, he went to high school and then to Wayne University, came out of classes frothing ideas. When the Depression hit Detroit, he reacted with a surge of Socialist hope and a sense of historic urgency. Excitedly, he joined picket lines and soapboxed at breadlines, organized soup kitchens and leftist student clubs. In the 1932 presidential campaign, he mounted a rear platform on his old Ford coupé and campaigned for Socialist Norman Thomas...