Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outrage that members of a learned calling should be held to account for their words and acts by politicians representing a noisy rabble of legionnaries, professional patriots, and the yellow press. Those who have taken the next step and identified themselves with the jailed Communist or the terrorized picket are relatively few. But the identity is there; and the protest is shaped out of the same sound impulse in both cases. After all, armies are never made up of altruists. Only a few men fought for woman suffrage; only a handful of Gentiles will work with genuine zeal...
...proposal for public ownership of the city electric company. A referendum on that issue will accompany next week's elections. Businessmen make much of the facts that Milwaukee had 107 strikes in 1934, that the Mayor's secretary and one of his chief organizers have marched in picket lines and made fighting speeches to strikers, that the Mayor himself was reported to have said to a group of strikers: "We must demand our rights. God bless you, I hope you win." They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney Max Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group...
...issue of March 17, the Harvard "Crimson" announced that "Unidentified Harvard students will take a vigorous part in aiding striking garment workers to picket." In true Hearst fashion, the "Crimson" then states "these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
Unidentified Harvard students will take a vigorous part in aiding striking garment workers to picket their establishments today according to rumors afloat last night...
...engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless...