Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor dispute. And Mexican braceros, who make up more than 10% of the seasonal crop pickers, cannot be hired unless there are no Americans to fill the jobs. So just at harvest time, Smith put ranchers on the spot by demanding higher pay and setting up a picket line, thus causing a "labor dispute" under California's interpretation of the labor laws. During the precious few weeks of harvesting, the ranchers were legally barred from getting help from the U.S. Employment Service. If the ranchers had already hired Mexicans, one of Smith's union men could take...
...days the Egyptian passenger-freighter Cleopatra has been dockbound in Manhattan, immobilized and unloaded because of a picket line thrown up by the Seafarers International Union (TIME, May 9). The union complained that Nasser's discrimination against ships touching at Israeli ports was, in effect, unfair to U.S. labor. No one questioned the legitimacy of the seamen's grievances, but Nasser angrily retaliated by declaring a counter-boycott of all U.S. shipping. The trouble spread quickly to other Moslem nations, including such carefully cultivated friends of the U.S. as Tunisia and Libya. The enraged Arab nations...
...Manhattan newspapers, it was only an item for the shipping page when the Seafarers International Union sent a straggle of pickets to an East River pier to prevent the unloading of an 8,193-ton Egyptian passenger-cargo ship named Cleopatra. The seafarers' grievance: Gamal Abdel Nasser's policy of blacklisting any ship that stops at an Israeli port has reduced employment opportunities for U.S. seamen. Longshoremen respected the picket line. The Cleopatra remained unloaded and unnoticed...
...Tuck is sure that the Scylla neutrons came from genuine fusion of deuterium, but he points out that Scylla was never intended to be a practical source of thermonuclear energy. More promising for this purpose is Picket Fence, an apparatus that forms a cavity between strong magnetic fields. When deuterium nuclei are shot into the cavity, they sometimes stay there for 30 millionths of a second, a very long time in thermonuclear physics. Said Dr. Tuck: "For the first time I see in this device faint glimmerings of a possibility of making a thermonuclear reactor...
Principle of the Thing. In Spokane, Wash., on his way to jail for drunkenness, one resourceful man noticed parading pickets of striking city workers, dug a union button out of his pocket, cried: "I can't cross the picket line...