Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Local 196 Union of hospital workers--nurses' aides, porters and orderlies--formed a picket line of off-duty workers outside Cambridge City Hospital. Off-duty policemen, carrying signs which read "The City Manager refuses to negotiate in good faith," marched in front of City Hall...
Harold Murphy, secretary-treasurer of the Policeman's Association, said Friday that his group had called off the picket because Corcoran had agreed to abide by the results of a fact-finding committee set up to investigate tenets of the new contract. Corcoran had previously refused to admit the results of the committee...
HARVARD WAS quiet last Spring. The turbulent ever is of the past few years--building seizures, picket lines spewing invective, trashing marches all disappeared, leaving behind only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen with tales of the past in dining halls and library alcoves. The electric ambiance of the past was quietly defused: the ever-present sense of contingency gave way to a deadening stasis...
...only feeble attempt to stage a disruptive activity--a graduate student strike last March--was an unmitigated failure. Undergraduates surged across picket lines, keeping class attendance from falling off appreciably and breaking the strike in four days...
...Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war reinforced the unrest, swelling the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...