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...Wood and Managing Editor B. 0. McAnney, he'waved vaguely: "Well, so long." Then Easton, who is chairman of the W-T & S Guild unit, walked out, followed by ten other Guildsmen on the slim lobster shift. By the time they left the building, a picket line of 150 was already forming. Easton picked up a sign and joined the line. The strike was the Guild's first against a New York City newspaper since the Brooklyn Eagle strike...
Tree Pruning? Soon there were 700 Guildsmen on the line. Of the 540 W-T & S employees eligible for membership, 400 belonged to the Guild; the rest of the picketers were from other New York Guild units. By 8 a.m., several hundred printers, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers had shown up for work. Although their A.F.L. and independent unions were not on strike, only a handful crossed the orderly picket line. The rest refused to cross, for fear of their "physical safety"-an explanation apparently designed to skirt the Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts and to avoid violating their...
...June-so would the United Furniture Workers unless a right-wing faction was successful in gaining control. After that the C.I.O. would be able to boast that it had done almost everything to preserve the "basic American trade union objectives" except to order George M. Cohan music on its picket lines...
...Soriano was speaking, Father Hogan took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...
...performances of his Paris Opéra Ballet, curtain bows run into the dozens-long after a good part of the audience has already left the hall. So when Russian-born Ballet Master Lifar brought his Opéra Ballet to Manhattan in 1948, and was greeted by a picket line denouncing him as a collaborationist,* he could hardly contain his indignation. Last week, in Paris, it looked as if Lifar might be having his revenge...