Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Highway 18 that their predecessors had learned 40 years before, knew they had a story. Violence had erupted in Harlan County, Bloody Harlan County, once more. Union men, their wives and children were struggling against scabs, state troopers, operator-owned judges, and union-busting Duke Power Company men with picket lines, prayers, pistols and even switches and brooms...
...STRAINS of a professional polka band, Chicopee proclaims itself the Kielbasa Capital of the World, while across town South Boston mothers wear buttons calling Southie "The Irish Riviera." Groups bound by common heritage are attracting more and more attention from the media: Londoners picket the Bolshoi to show their sympathy for Russian Jews, Brando passes up his Oscar for the sake of Native Americans, and the Basques help Franco destroy himself. Filmmakers have taken a renewed interest in the ethnic backgrounds of their protagonists, from Jimmy Cliff to the Corleones, and even prime time TV, exploiting the trend...
...union leadership and a real desire on the part of workers to participate in the organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines. Now we don't like it. but Vic Gotbaum's our friend. Woodcock's our friend, too. And we don't want to embarass them...
Despite the penalty, clusters of teachers kept up the strike, often marching in picket lines inside the "buffer zones" set up for antibusing demonstrators near such trouble-prone schools as South Boston and Charlestown. Administrators and teacher aides tried to hold some classes, with indifferent success. "I've got seven kids," said one South End mother, "and there's no way I can keep them home. But they're not really learning very much in school this week...
...Boston walkout was the largest teachers' strike in the nation, last week at least 36 other strikes were in progress in ten states. Probably the most bitter was in Wilmington, Del, where 253 teachers were arrested last week on charges of disorderly conduct after police broke up a picket line outside the school administration building. All told, more than 400 of Wilmington's 800 teachers have been arrested or cited for contempt of court since the strike started Sept. 2. The mass arrests resulted from the aggressive policies of politically ambitious Mayor Thomas Maloney, 33, who charged...