Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picket lines of portly butchers were promptly swung around kosher shops which refused to close, bringing on as lusty a brawling as in any A. F. of L.C. I. O. fracas. A plea to reopen from their president and from now on the Commissioner of Markets was met in open mass meetings with a loud Yiddish NO! Ignoring the law of supply & demand, which was working with textbook simplicity as a result of Drought and Government curtailment, the butchers howled that they were the victims of a packers' monopoly...
...meetings. But since Episcopalians are prone to be tolerant and easygoing, they presumably were not affected by what Norman Thomas and others told them. The C. L. I. D.'s Executive Secretary Spofford told reporters that the General Convention had stalled a Cincinnati drugstore strike: "The picket line was effective until this convention arrived, but the girls tell me the church people go right through, particularly the clergy. Lay people see a bishop or a clergyman go in, think it's all right and follow...
...Although about 300 editorial and business office Guildsmen were called out on strike after the Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International Typographical Union, in effect until June 30, 1938. Failing to shut the plant, the Guild solicited funds by radio...
...trucks manned by members of the Teamsters Union, which on the West Coast is bossed by A. F. of L.'s beefy Dave Beck, "Tsar of Seattle Labor" and a sworn enemy of Harry Bridges. Promptly hustled to the warehouse was a crew of Bridges' unionists to picket not the warehouse but the Beck teamsters...
Meantime both sides settled down to a finish fight. Paramount and Max Fleischer continued to ignore the strikers as best they could; the strikers continued to picket Max Fleischer's studio, singing their own words to a well-known tune...