Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the strike, the Ford Motor Co. last week displayed some of its leading entries in the 1968 model sweepstakes-and did it with a flair. Greeting the press at the La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif.-about as far from the Detroit picket lines as the company could get-Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price...
...aware of its value. "No matter who is shouting for Negro rights in the streets," says Clarence Hunter, spokesman for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "you must still have Young to go inside and deal for the jobs and the training." Says Young: "You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course." Though the Urban League has in many ways changed almost beyond recognition from the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes that was set up in New York in 1910, its role...
...more jobs. So are most other Negro leaders. "Teenagers with jobs," says Randolph, "don't throw Molotov cocktails through store windows." Wilkins is trying to get more construction jobs for Negroes with "a massive assault on discriminatory hiring practices," has urged some 1,500 N.A.A.C.P. branches to picket federal and state building projects worth $76.5 billion unless more openings are made available...
Every peace group in the area has made plans to picket President Johnson should he attend the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which is going on this week at the Sheraton Boston Hotel...
...state-run election, which is expected to be held sometime this month. But last night, Donn J. Berry, secretary of the Crafts Maintenance Council, warned that if it appears that the election won't be held until after the summer. Harvard "can expect the men back on the picket line...