Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of the anti-abortion demonstrators, including school children with signs written on the backs of book covers, then began to march between the Parent's Aid Society picket lines. Others went up to the State House to talk with their legislators...
Thus far, the doctors' unions have been able to accomplish their aims without taking to the picket lines. Indeed, doctors generally find the idea of a strike unthinkable. "When someone's sick, you have to treat him," says Dr. Kenneth G. Burton, a general practitioner who heads the two-year-old American Physicians Union, which is headquartered in San Antonio. But it is not inconceivable that U.S. physicians may some day take part in a walkout. Says Yount: "The ultimate weapon of any organization is the threat of withdrawal of services...
...students plan to picket the consulate throughout the night. Greek students from Princeton and Yale will also take part in today's demonstraton...
Brown University students faced a choice between respecting picket lines and study as usual yesterday, as Brown's 95 library workers went out on strike...
...Brown Daily Herald also called for support of the strike. But it advised students not to respect the Services Employees International Union's picket line, and instead, to cross it in large numbers, check out enormous numbers of books, and generally harrass the library administrators who are trying to keep the libraries going...