Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little disturbance was reported during the two-week walkout which involved power plant employees, the maintenance crew, and janitors and maids. Picketing was only partially effective, since delivery service employees refused to honor it. The only minor incident was the arrest of a picket for disturbing the peace as he tried to block deliveries to the power plant...
...Legion's own Firing Line--a self-styled guide to subversives. Armed with this information, the veterans found further encouragement in "Now Hear This!," an article appearing in the American Legion Magazine. It was a plea that Legionaires warn their fellows against red tinted lecturers, and if necessary, "picket the meeting. Your fellow citizens . . . might voice displeasure at your 'ways and means' but they do wake...
...power plant Yale police arrested a picket captain in the weekend's only near outbreak of violence. The captain attempted to halt the passage through the picket lines of an oil truck. When he resisted a police order to permit the truck to pass, a momentary struggle between pickets and police broke out but quieted with the captain's arrest. Last night he was out on $100 ball...
Elsewhere picket lines were being broken consistently by non-union members, students, and faculty...
...faculty member, however, refused to cross the picket lines and held his Saturday classes in the office of the Yale News...