Word: picketers
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...small crowd of orderly demonstrators picketed outside the Harvard Provision Co. Saturday night for over two hours, despite attempts by some teenagers and Harvard football players to disrupt the picket line...
Leaders of the Harvard-Radcliffe Boycott Support Committee said Saturday night they were pleased with the numbers of customers who refused to cross the picket lines. Starting this week, the committee plans to picket the store Friday nights, Saturday afternoons and Saturday nights--the store's peak selling hours...
...courts, tax-payers' subsidies used to boost the profits of landlords and agribusinesses, from the story of Owens Valley ("Chinatown") to the West Side swindle and the importation of bracers, the bloody battles fought by early squatters and the recent murder of Juan de la Cruz on a picket line--all these are permanent features of the great agricultural valleys of California...
...picket lines there is none of us workers, none of us people," Dolores Mendoza, Delano grape picker, told nationally syndicated columnist Ralph DeToledano. "They got the hippies from San Francisco, they got people from Mexico who never worked here before...
Another grape picker, Shirley Fetalvero, testified before a California Senate fact-finding committee. "The union's massive propaganda machine has led the public to believe that there are thousands of desperate, ragged, starving farmworkers on strike here. This is not true. The picket lines are being manned by outside organizations such as the SDS. We resent the invention of an ignorant, downtrodden class of farmworkers where none exists...