Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plaza all the way to First Street. Photographers maneuvered to capture celebrities as they arrived, including Senators Robert Griffin and Thomas Eagleton, and Mrs. Earl Warren, widow of the Chief Justice who presided over the historic school desegregation decision of 1954. As the crowds pressed forward, young demonstrators waved picket signs and chanted slogans...
...arrested during this strike. Francisco Ortiz told me how he was arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only his underwear. Josefina Ortiz was sprayed with a pesticide while on a picket and she developed a sore that took three years to heal...
Hemmet, by this time, was coming to the bargaining table, but in body only. In particular, we concentrated picket lines in front of Nurseryland, because they had at one time agreed not to carry any more Hemmet products until a contract was signed and has then gone back on the agreement. So we took the case to the customers, and many turned away...
...retaliation, APEX organized a picket outside the plant. For months Mrs. Desai and a handful of other dismissed employees patrolled in saris outside the gates of Grunwick as policemen eyed them warily. Unable to meet with Ward, APEX enlisted the aid of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), an agency set up by the government's 1975 Employment Protection...
...about 70 or 80 ft. above the ground). The B-l also is equipped with the most advanced black-box gear, which sends out electronic signals to counteract enemy warning systems. But critics maintain that when the Soviets develop new defensive weapons, including look-down radar and radar picket planes, like the AWACS, the B-l will become obsolete...