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Minutes before the deadline-6 a.m., Easter Monday-Schwellenbach's last appeal was spurned. In Manhattan's dawn Miss Eileen McDonnell removed her headset, took the elevator down to the street and picked up a picket sign. Across the country, by time zones, galloped Mr. Mayer's horse. At 9 a.m., E.S.T., workers quit the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. offices in Los Angeles and for the first time in history a telephone walkout was nationwide...
...sunny morning a little knot of white students gathered at the gas station across San Pedro Street from the school. Waving placards lettered "No Nigger Wanted," they hoisted two effigies to a lamppost, urged students to cut classes and join the picket line. Soon 600 of Fremont's 2,900 students were out on strike, 200 of them milling through San Pedro Street...
Principal Wood moved fast. Wading through the picket line, he yanked down one effigy. Then, on the spot, he suspended all student strikers until they appeared before him with their parents. For two days he interviewed students and parents, made each sign a pledge agreeing "that all Fremont students are entitled to the same rights and privileges...
Rolled & Wrapped. When the postwar maritime strikes erupted last year, however, the union was horrified to discover a more basic change in ex-picket Charley Ross-as True Knowledge, he was a conscientious objector to strikes. He not only refused to picket, but did not turn up for alternative jobs-working in soup kitchens, handing out pamphlets or working on a sick committee. After the strike was over he was kicked out of the union by the picketing committee...
Meanwhile, the ten men working the picket line last night were fed coffee and doughnuts by Mrs. Noyes Collinson, Mrs. Louise Boyden, and Miss Jane Saddier of the Cambridge Community Relations Committee, one of the civic groups that have announced their support of the action against the Club...