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...Picket Courtship. Eugenia operated an embroidery machine in a Bronx dress factory, and George's only real union activity at the time was to walk with her on picket lines when her union, I.L.G.W.U. Local 6, was on strike. (As a working plumber, Meany never went on strike.) In 1919 George and Eugenia were married. Shortly thereafter, perhaps because of Eugenia's influence, he began to take an active part in Plumbers Local 463. In 1920, with the help of some other young dissidents, he was elected to the local board, and in 1922, at 28, he became...
...increase that would put a paper out of business. Last week Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth was trying to put the Guild's contention to one of its rare tests. Four weeks ago the Guild struck the Eagle, and when mechanical-union employees refused to cross the picket line the paper was forced to suspend publication. The Guild demanded the same $5.80 package wage increase that staffers on Manhattan dailies got in the latest round of wage negotiations...
...chief of the nation's largest industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles, and Republic Steel's Tom Girdler became a hero to some businessmen when he snapped: "I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O...
...Tigers have lost three, against a single win, while the Crimson will be seeking its fifth win, having tied one and lost one. "They have a better team, but play a tougher schedule," Coach Bob Picket said yesterday...
There is only one problem: the Irish do not approve of the band's traditional red uniforms. "If they wear red, I'll picket their damned parade," a prominent former mayor said yesterday...