Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members, said Brown, were violating their contract with the Sun by refusing to cross the picket line. "The Newspaper Guild," he complained in a telegram to his Baltimore local, "has taken an uncompromising position in its negotiations with management," a surprising comment from the boss of a union whose New York local had pre cipitated a 114-day New York news paper strike two years ago that helped kill one paper. "Members of Baltimore Typographical Union," Brown went on to say, "owe their first loyalty to the ITU. Any member returning to work under the current contract would be upholding...
Amid the waves of campus unrest rolling across the U.S., the University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...
Since April 20, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Baltimore Sun and other unions refused to cross the picket line, Baltimore has had no newspaper worthy of the name. The city's only other daily, Hearst's News-American, shut down in support of its competitor, and by last week a disheartened NLRB examiner saw no sign of an end to the strike. Management and the Guild, said he, "are at a total stalemate. If it isn't settled soon, I think it'll go on for a long time. At the bargaining sessions, they...
Union members, to be sure, no longer get the old spark from their once fiery papers, nor do they read them as fervently as they did in the past. "It was never a problem to dramatize a picket line," explains Justice Editor Leon Stein, "but how do you dramatize a tax cut?" On the other hand, union members now read their papers for much the same reasons that other people read the commercial press: for information and for entertainment. "In the '20s and '30s," recalls a Manhattan ladies' garment worker, "there were just two classes of society...
...Selma because God is moving in history, and here is the great historicultural event of our day-the racial revolution-coming to a crisis. God is there because God grows in history, demanding me to come.' Where is God now? Is he on one side of the picket line? Or is he on both perhaps? To find him remains the problem...