Word: picketers
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...almost every labor-union member, a picket line is sacrosanct: he would rather see than cross one. Last week the hair on union ears bristled at a heretic's cry. Said an editorial in the Teamster, organ of the powerful Teamsters union...
...Most of the fellows who refuse to go through picket lines are yellow. It takes a real man to go through a picket line when he is ordered to do so by his International Union. . . . The man who observes the . . . decisions of his superior officers in the union is the real union man. The other fellow is, in most instances, a bunko artist who is looking for a chance to prove how good...
...little things were his old newspaper cronies, his folks in Indiana, "That Girl" in the picket-fenced white house in Albuquerque and, above all, the desire of a shy man to move about at his own gait. After three and a half months of being lionized, he got ready to go to war again, this time to the Pacific...
...asked, "the kind of girl who wants to settle down in a little white cottage with a picket fence around...
...shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army take over, played a record...