Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picketers called the Harvard University Strike Group, released a statement after the meeting saying that they had "made no headway." "Bennett maintained the neutrality and innocence of Harvard investment procedures; the picket delegation maintained the immorality and bankruptcy of those procedures," the statement said...
...Picket line formation at Emerson Hall...
...only a handful of impassioned workers to disrupt an industrial plant. On Detroit's auto production lines, where violence and walkouts were everyday occurrences in the old days of union organization, a determined band of black radicals has posed a new threat. They have overturned production schedules with picket lines and some assaults on foremen. Victims include more moderate Negroes, who nevertheless do not openly condemn the militants. Both union and management leaders are concerned that the black protest movement will grow and cause more widespread damage...
Strikes and Sabotage. Operating through an organization known as DRUM, for "Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement," the angries began last July by shutting down the old Dodge Main Plant in Hamtramck with a day and a half of wildcat picketing. They demanded, among other things, more black foremen, a Negro plant manager, abolition of union dues for Negroes and, for good measure, replacement of Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend with a Negro. On Jan. 27 another wildcat picket line closed Chrysler's Eldon Avenue axle plant for half a day. On one occasion, report United Auto Workers officials, a Chrysler foreman...
...would effect me more to consort with everyone who agreed with me and picket everyone who didn...