Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technology; increased coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act; increased minimum wage and greater coverage; increased overtime pay; expanded manpower training and retraining programs; efforts to repeal state right-to-work laws; an end to "the present, inequitable restrictions on the right to organize and to strike and picket peaceably." The G.O.P. platform promised "restoration of collective bargaining responsibility to labor and management"; less intervention by third parties-presumably Federal Government officials-in settling labor disputes; and complete reorganization of the National Labor Relations Board...
...Nuns on Picket Lines. This surge of renewal is more concerned with the structure of the church than the substance of doctrine, more with practical questions of morality and Christian living than with abstract theological problems. Renewal, American-style, deals with freedom within the church, with the kind of rebellion that does not end in the classic "leaving the church...
...Cardinal Mclntyre-and got strong support from a few Catholic lay organizations. The Catholic monthly Jubilee has published dozens of letters by priests and laymen asking for a re-examination of the church's stand on birth control. Nuns and priests are no longer strangers to civil rights picket lines. With the approval of Oklahoma's bishop, two Catholic parishes have joined Tulsa's previously all-Protestant Council of Churches. A liturgically reforming priest in Detroit says, with only a touch of hyperbole: "Just walking in off the street, you couldn't tell the difference between...
Fragmented Leadership. Even when they are on the scene, Harlem's leaders are quarrelsome and grasping. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert M. Kinloch, head of a largely paper outfit called the Independent Community Improvement Association, turned up to picket a 125th Street cafeteria to protest "the lack of a black face behind the counter." Suddenly the Rev. Nelson Dukes turned up to "mediate" in his capacity as head of the Blue Ribbon Organization for Equal Opportunity Now. The pickets shouted "Uncle Tom" at Dukes, and Kinloch complained, "This is my demonstration and my pickets...
...faculty committees to give the faction-ridden teachers a sense of responsible participation in the administration. He was equally tactful toward the young rebels in the student body of 18,000, shamed them into abandoning a demonstration against Visiting Prince Akihito of Japan by offering to help with the picket signs it the students promised to keep their protest dignified. Philippine nationalists, who opposed Romulo as a "brown American" because of his close ties with the U.S., became his supporters after he encouraged the study of national history and literature, offered to print diplomas in Tagalog instead of English...