Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be, as San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that the co operation has been so easily accepted, suggests Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin...
Riding Piggyback. Relations between the two unions have long been uneasy and lately have further deteriorated. Jurisdictional disputes have flared as both unions have vied to organize proofreaders, stencil clerks and driver-mailers. The Guild refused to honor I.T.U. picket lines at three Toronto dailies last year and helped break the strike. In retaliation, the I.T.U. crossed the Guild's picket lines at two Hearst newspapers in Albany and helped break that strike; last May, after the Guild struck the Baltimore Sun, I.T.U. President Elmer Brown ordered his printers back to work...
Chrysler dealers coming from across the country to Boston Tuesday for a display of 1966 cars will be met by demonstrators protesting the firm's investments in South Africa. Students for a Democratic Society will picket the War Memorial Auditorium, where the cars are being unveiled, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday, an SDS spokesman said yesterday...
Unable to have her exhibition-bound art removed from a strikebound ship in Manhattan, French Sculptress Jacque line Fayet-Leroy stationed herself by the picket lines, went on a hunger strike. After five days, the strikers could no longer stand it, and last week they al lowed longshoremen to remove the crate containing her six sculptures. That was about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner...
...began at 5:10 p.m. with the 67 demonstrators who were sitting at the gate encircled by nearly the same number of policemen. Between 500 and 600 other demonstrators marched in a nearby picket line that was loosely surrounded by about 150 policemen...