Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope he will be. He's been asked. I can't imagine that he couldn't make a great contribution." The obvious, but carefully unspoken implication was that if Meany declines to serve and sets organized labor to fighting the program in the courts or on the picket lines, he will be largely to blame for the failure of the most promising effort yet to check inflation...
...strike of 15,000 West Coast dock workers. Last week the walkout moved into its third month, and there seemed little hope of an early settlement. "It takes a month to get everything shut up tight," says Union President Harry Bridges, who last led his men to the picket lines in 1948. "Then you've got a good strike...
...honor her, she put a price on her appearance and noted, "Checks preferred." But Yolande was also one of the most liberal and active winners. By the early 1960s she was working for the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and SANE. Much to the dismay of pageant managers, she was on the picket line at the first lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960. She denounced the events in Atlantic City as not only racist but also antifeminist. After her husband, Millionaire Matthew Fox, died in 1964, Yolande moved to Washington, D.C., where she fell in love with a foreign diplomat-an ongoing romance...
...century Little Italys, where Mafia was a whispered word and bosses were not bad gered by grand juries, tax investigators and wiretaps. To accomplish his goal, Colombo tapped deepseated, legitimate grievances among Italian Americans and ? shocking editorial writers and Mob capos alike?jumped into press conferences and picket lines. He sought to make Cosa Nostra private once more by turning any derision of Italian Americans?Mafiosi or not?into a cause for public censure. It was a radical notion that more traditional Mafia leaders could not have imagined and, in the end, could not countenance...
...Sharp shows throughout his examples, persistence is the key to success. The nonviolent demonstrators must live their action daily, often for long periods of time, as did Gandhi's followers in India. They must sustain a picket line or a boycott much longer than the few hours of a Lexington sit-in or the few days of a Washington demonstration. The action becomes their primary purpose in life; they cannot go home and resume normal activity until the next demonstration, as do the American antiwar protesters. Sharp demands a full-time commitment which thus far in this country has only...