Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December of 1940 the Committee for Militant Peace Action conducted a mass demonstration in the Yard and 400 students, teachers, and workers proclaimed "1941 shall not be 1917." Approximately 100 members of the Militant Aid to Britain Committee quickly organized a counter-rally and crashed through the pacifist picket lines singing "There Shall Always Be an England" and carrying posters which read "pacifists are yellow." The Action group replied by chanting "keep America out of war," and by passing out "the Yanks are not coming" buttons...
...last. By the end of the week, four other craft unions had settled, and the rest of the craft unions are likely to come around soon. But a speedy end to the strike was by no means assured. It is the Newspaper Guild, after all, that took to the picket lines, and the Guild's demands cannot be met with money alone. The question of seniority in hiring for the new papers has yet to be resolved. Guild Chief Tom Murphy has said that a new contract could be negotiated in 48 hours of hard bargaining...
...corrugating the painting with Vs in relief, and painting each arm of the Vs separately, Agam can reveal two distinct acutely angled surfaces to viewers at the same time. Carefully coloring, choosing geometric forms and calculating the visual bias, Agam can produce picket-fence panoramas which can transit through 180° as the viewer walks by, from black to a myriad rainbow of abstract constructivist shapes to white...
...class on flights where it has no competition. Patterson's latest complaint is about the youth fare (TIME, April 22), which offers reduced rates to the 12-to-22 age group. "I wish," he growled last week, that "kids carrying banjos and ukuleles and looking for a new picket line would find some other way to travel...
...Monday, hospital director Murray Fertel fired Keaty for attempting to organize the workers. The Association met with SDS again Monday night and decided to picket the hospital for the rest of the week. If Fertel does not offer to recognize the Association, Keaty said, "we'll have to try more drastic measures...