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...Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, three of the six States which make up New York City's giant milkshed, striking farmers picketed dairy plants and highways, dumped milk in the roads, poured kerosene on trucks, fired at State troopers. At Pulaski, N.Y., a woman picket was injured. At Rutland, Vt., a deputy sheriff was killed...
...President William Green, the legislation smelt like "a violation of the Constitution." C.I.O. President Philip Murray called it an effort to clamp upon "the total American economy a rigid status of enforced labor." The May, Connally and Vinson bills, said labor, jeopardized the right to picket, established compulsory arbitration, deprived labor of its right to strike...
...Boss Petrillo told his men that they could walk through certain picket lines. Example: those thrown up by Manhattan teamsters, who last month demanded the right to carry musicians' instruments at $10 per piccolo per day, $20 per night (TIME, June...
...shots shattered Inglewood's tense morning. Most serious casualty was one picket, who was reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...
...determined to us his newly won emergency powers of force to restore production. If so, he might better bring his influence to bear on N. A. A.'s prosperous owners to concede the seventy-five cent minimum wage asked by the Union than order his Army to squash the picket line. Such a move would be less liable to the cries of "Communism" which would arise on every hand than is the present proposal to charges of Fascism...