Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as no expense was stinted to make the Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's "Bubble Ball" Philadelphia's party of the year, neither did the Record stint space to report, for Philadelphians without the engraved card necessary to pass detectives and a fresh-painted picket fence, all details such as pink satin walls, pink lilies and pink soapsuds fountain in the swank Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make...
...yards in Chester, Pa., Sun members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers refused to service it, struck. Union officials improved the occasion by demanding more pay, a 36-hour week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines bore down on the seething mass-at 50 m.p.h., said strikers. Four men were seriously hurt, more than 100 banged...
Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...
...striking Guildsmen could not have closed the P-I without the support of dock workers and truckmen who failed to scare when the town's conservatives, encouraged by such leading citizens as Publisher Clarance Brettun Blethen of the Times, talked of forming vigilante bands to break the picket lines...
...night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...