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Despite the threat of imminent hourlies and the distraction of approaching vacation, nearly 400 students gathered in front of 17 Quincy St. Friday to picket the meeting of the Harvard Corporation, which was meeting inside to consider the issue of University investment in U.S. companies operating in South Africa...
About 200 members of the Maintenance Trades Council, which combines five separate union locals, voted to join picket lines that Carpenters' Local 40--one of the member unions--was expected to form today outside Holyoke Center and other locations...
...into a spirit of miner camaraderie that may be typical of rank-and-file reaction throughout Appalachia. The town is divided on whether the contract was the best deal at that moment, but it is united in its detestation for Taft-Hartley and its respect for a union picket line. Oceana's miners expect to find roving pickets from other parts of the district along the road to the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. mine in nearby Kopperston-and unless police keep the pickets clear of the mine at all times, they will not work. If there is violence...
Possibly a fourth of the local's miners would go back to work if no pickets appeared and if they were guaranteed some protection. But they are certain that "stranger" pickets, who cannot be readily identified and thus prosecuted, will show up and that protection cannot be provided. "Local people won't picket here," predicted Leonard Stewart, 31, who would like to go back to work. "People won't fight the people they live with." Toward the expected "strangers," however, the miners feel fear...
After marches through downtown Nashville Friday and Saturday, protesters set up picket lines outside the Vanderbilt gym where the matches took place...