Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anarchism, both as a doctrine and a political movement, has been pretty well defunct (except in Spain) for more than two generations. Yet today it is identifiable in the pattern of student unrest from Rome to Berkeley, and its black flag shows up persistently among the campus picket signs...
...Though we think that militant, closed picket lines are sometimes necessary, for example to stop scabs, we wanted to stop people from entering Morgan Memorial only with political arguments'" Boyd said...
...strike began after Morgan Memorial fired most of the night shift--11 workers--and four day-shift drivers. Strikers on the picket line said that conditions inside the plant were indecent and that they were continually harrassed. They said they were often asked to "leave for unpaid vacations" when they complained about working conditions...
Unwanted Protection. The Defense League's response so far has been to picket public meetings, bait Mayor John Lindsay, provide armed escorts for Jewish teachers in slum neighborhoods, and scuffle with Nazi Party members. J.D.L. also sued to reopen the City College of New York this spring after a student demonstration temporarily closed the campus...
Before I knew it, I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having struck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable...