Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket lines and the defiant sit-downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General Motors' example by getting the judge to issue warrants for the arrest of the sitters and their leaders. This time it was not necessary for Governor Murphy to command a sheriff...
Though his friend Major George L. Berry carried on the meeting-denouncing the strike as an A. F. of L. plot to embarrass him-John L. Lewis refused to cross the picket line, even declined an offer to cross if the pickets were temporarily withdrawn.* Four days later in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, while he was in the midst of a wage conference with coal operators, an emissary interrupted him with the disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis...
Next day the Chrysler officials were passed through the picket lines to continue negotiations but they were not satisfied with this arrangement. They applied to Judge Allan Campbell for an injunction against the sit-downers, charging 70 union leaders, from John L. Lewis down to "John Doe, Richard Roe and Mary Roe," with conspiracy to seize company property. Specifically, B. Edwin Hutchinson, chairman of Chrysler's Finance Committee, declared that the passes given to his office force to enter the offices were unsatisfactory, that automobiles of executives were searched by pickets, that company badges of non-union employes...
...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...
...fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist way the American way out of the local dilemma. This consists in arresting the ravening leaders of both factions, exporting the scabs, disarming the factory guards, dispersing the picket line and forcing a reasonable agreement on both sides by an aroused and forceful civic leadership...