Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students for a Democratic Society yesterday helped picket the Jewish Memorial Hospital in Roxbury to demand higher wages and better working conditions for hospital employees...
...nothing so crude as a march on Washington, nothing so trite as a White House picket line. It was a camp-in. And a stroke of publicity genius at that. Some 90 impoverished Negroes from Mississippi's tent cities last week staked out for themselves some of the choicest acreage in the Great Society-the tulip beds of Lafayette Square, just a few steps across Pennsylvania Avenue from Lyndon Johnson's front door and within nailing distance of his bedroom window. "We want," declared Camp Leader Frank Smith, 25, "to let the President see exactly what the housing...
...usual, the intransigent I.T.U. was at odds with the rest of the newspaper unions. Though most of the other union members honored the picket line, only the mailers joined the printers in striking. Five of the other unions had accepted the publishers' early offer when contracts ran out in 1964: a $4.10 weekly increase in health and welfare benefits in 1965; a $4.20 increase in pension payments in 1966; and no wage boost. The printers, who have a fatter pension fund than the other unions, balked. They demanded an immediate pay raise. As one printer on the picket line...
...Dixie Student. Though he was chairman of the policymaking N.A.A.C.P. board of directors in 1960, Weaver has never been a picket-line, front-line fighter in the civil rights movement. His role has been, in his words, that of "a liberal rather than a Negro; I feel that black chauvinism is no bet ter than white chauvinism...
...they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only a really minor minority lacks the strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed jumping from a basement apartment." The one subject that is strictly taboo right now is Viet Nam, says...