Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters in the picket lines had done well at the department stores involved-Kaufmann's, Home's, Gimbels, Frank & Seder's and Rosenbaum's. Their pay, $2.122 an hour, was at or near the Teamsters' national top, and they enjoyed two featherbedding privileges unmatched in. the U.S. The stores were not permitted to make parcel-post deliveries, but were required to put a union driver and helper on every delivery truck, regardless of the size of the load...
...American zinc miners in New Mexico. The miners want the same pay as the "Anglos" who do the same jobs at other pitheads; and their wives want plumbing for the huts they live in on company property. The company refuses to negotiate, wins an injunction forbidding the miners to picket. They stop-and the women start. At this unexpected development, the police don't know quite what to do. First they try pushing. Then they use tear gas. The women cannot be moved...
When 400 members of the Photo-Engravers' Union refused to submit their dispute with Manhattan newspaper publishers to arbitration four months ago, the engravers went on strike and 20,000 other newspaper employees refused to cross their picket lines. The eleven-day strike shut down Manhattan's dailies, cost the papers a total of more than $10 million in revenue and the employees more than $2,000.000 in wages. The engravers, among the highest-paid newspaper employees, finally agreed to go back to work and submit their differences (a $7.50 weekly wage increase v. $3.75 offered...
...Guild, which represents L.P.A.'s employees, said no. The hard-pressed L.P.A. was forced to rehire the employee and pay him more than $2,500 in back wages. When L.P.A. could not meet its weekly payroll as a result, the entire staff went on strike and threw a picket line around the office. Last week L.P.A. "regretfully" announced that it was closing for good...
Japanese submarines, surface vessels and planes, desperate survivors of a deadly war of attrition, swept in. But before they could hit the transports, they had to get past the destroyer pickets and the planes the destroyers whistled up from the carriers. Day after day, week after week, as men and supplies poured onto the Okinawa beaches, the small boys performed their man-sized jobs. In desperation, fleets of Kamikazes plunged out of the sky, their suicidal pilots aiming their bomb loads at the destroyers. A barrage of fire stopped most, but not all. By the time the shooting stopped...