Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unreasonable" in its demands for the Negro in the ghetto. "How much do you have to show your 'black bourgeoisie' board member," asked Rusk, "before he decides that it's about time to shelve his old, comfortable image of the Urban League, which didn't picket, boycott or organize strikes...
...Freedom House, a residence and office he set up for the youth council. So "totally immersed" in the Negro's problems is he, says his superior, St. Boniface's Pastor Eugene Bleidorn, that Father Groppi is "a Negro with white skin." Adds Groppi himself: "I will picket with the Negro, I will go South with him, I will go to jail with him, and I will hang with him if it need...
...increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire 18% package. Still, militant union members were clearly unhappy about the size of the increase and threatened to remain on picket lines until they get more. If they do, they may face a further problem: a 1954 law makes strikers liable, at parliamentary discretion, to jail terms if they refuse to obey an order to return to their jobs. By week's end a nervous government had yet to enforce...
...Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
...G.O.P. candidate for Governor, persuaded them to roll back to the old 28?-qt. line until such time as the State Milk Control Commission could hold hearings to determine "a fair price." Last week the commission started its hearings-whereupon some 200 dairymen stomped out and set up picket lines to agitate for higher milk prices...