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...picket line set up by A.F.L. Theater Managers and Agents marched in front of the Lyric Theater in Baltimore when Spanish Dancer José Greco and his troupe came to town. The charge: Greco was touring without the aid of a pressagent. Although the public ignored the pickets, and the fuss got good publicity, Greco gave in, hired a pressagent before moving on to Washington...
Line of Duty. In Indianapolis, assigned to keep order at the strike-bound Indiana Bell Telephone Co., Policeman Carey Bennett met C.I.O. Picket Margaret Brabham, seven weeks later persuaded her to leave the picket line and marry...
When the A.F.L.'s Automobile Mechanics Union began organizing auto dealers' mechanics in Chicago in 1939, Carl Petersen's Chevrolet agency balked. Two of his employees struck and began picketing. After two years of it, they got fed up and quit. The union kept picketing anyway, using Alexander Orr, a ruddy, rotund little Scottish bachelor and professional picket...
Last week, after twelve years of walking up & down outside Petersen's, 69-year-old picket Orr's tour of duty finally came to an end. Dealer Petersen agreed to go along with an agreement signed by the Chevrolet Dealers Association and the union, and urge his few remaining nonunion mechanics to join up. Said Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice...
...last week, the tiny bandstand was jammed so tight that the grand piano dangled off the platform and had one leg supported by a post. Glittering in the colored lights was an instrument few jive cats had ever seen-a harp, and across the back gleamed a picket fence of big tubular chimes. Altogether there were 21 players and 77 instruments, with ten microphones scattered among them. A spectacled, shy young man named Eddie Sauter-one of the leaders of the band-wrote something on a slate and held it up for all the players to see. They went into...