Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After concluding their protest at Boston College, the BAG members went to medley Station to picket the Woolworth are there. The National Association for a Advancement of Colored People picked another branch...
...this? demanded the sleuths, and went around seizing a curious little pamphlet entitled R.S.G.-6 from the marchers. It outlined British plans in the event of a nuclear attack, even pinpointed emergency centers of government in case London is destroyed-along with hints that the marchers might want to picket one such site along their route. Publisher: an outfit calling itself "Spies for Peace...
...miner put it this way at a meeting of strikers: "I'll tell you something boys, and I'm gonna tell you the truth now. There will be blood coming from the mines--not coal--unless we get a union contract. And if you try to get by my picket line you're gonna smell copper and lead, copper and lead...
There are no picket lines in eastern Kentucky today. The miners have agreed to suspend open protests until the National Labor Relations Board rules on an injunction request by the mine operators this Monday. But the tension continues. Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited...
Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...