Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Chicago was quiet, but a vivid description of what a newsreel camera saw Mayor Kelly's police do to the picket army at Republic Steel's barrier month ago (see p. 11), provoked fresh cries of "murder" from the Labor camp...
...then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour week split into five days instead of the five seven-hour days and one five-hour day the union demanded. These proposals were turned down as promptly as everyone expected, and red-&-black strike flags continued to fly peaceably over orderly picket lines. Since in Mexico any form of strikebreaking is heinously unconstitutional, no worker was afraid of being displaced...
Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...
Manhattan's ingenious American Museum of Natural History last week got ready to exhibit the newest trick in museum educational work. Back of a picket fence the visitor sees a stuffed hen looking at a painting of other hens and a rooster in a barnyard (see cut). As the visitor looks a loudspeaker narrates: "The hens in the barnyard seem to us all very much alike. We would have great difficulty in distinguishing one from another if we did not put rings or other identification marks on their legs. But to the hen every other hen in the yard...
...Wranowitz, Czechoslovakia, Anton Smula bet drinking companions that he dared enter a cemetery, filch a wreath from a new grave. Next morning Anton Smula was found dead in the cemetery, his coat caught in a picket fence...