Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City newspapers were publishing again. It was an uneasy and precarious peace. The Newspaper Guild's Tom Murphy seemed to he threatening yet another walkout: "If the World-Telegram and Journal-American were to merge," said he, speaking of an event the industry expects, "I could put a picket line out, and they wouldn't publish as individual papers, let alone as a merged paper." Printers' Boss Bert Powers was reminding everyone that he has not given an inch in his demands. Any new contracts, said Powers, must give his men a hefty share of savings from...
Today the Cambridge sponsoring groups, which include the Students for a Democratic Society and the May 2nd Movement, plan to leave the Cambridge Common at 1 p.m. and march to the Boston Common. The marchers, joined by students from Boston University and M.I.T., will picket the U.S. Army recruiting station at 42 Boylston Street and listen to a series of speeches at the Common's bandstand...
Neither was most of the competition. When the nine other newspaper unions refused to cross the Guild picket line, the papers belonging to the New York Publishers Association-the Her-a'd Tribune, Daily News, Journal-American, World-Telegram, Long Island Daily Press and Star-Journal-shut down too. Of the city's major dailies, only the New York Post, which does not belong to the association, was still on newsstands-a situation that served as an ominous reminder of 1962's 114-day newspaper strike, which crippled the city's papers and helped send...
...convinced the membership that a union is like a tollgate and that all it does is collect dues. There isn't the feeling there used to be for the whole labor movement. Our own printers aren't interested in how the cab Drivers are being organized. A picket line is an annoyance...
Orthodox women began to picket the Reb's house, shouting "Whore-lover!" and demanding to know why their daughters were not good enough for him. Summoned before the sect's religious court, Blau refused to abandon Ruth because his vow of betrothal to her could not be broken without her consent-something she would never give. Blau also raised a canny theological argument. His sexual organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed...