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...anti-Viet Nam, anticonscription group called the Draft Information Committee set up a table next to the Navy recruiters. Campus police ordered it removed. A crowd appeared, including Savio and Communist Student Bettina Aptheker. A fist fight broke out between two students, which drew more spectators. Some set up picket lines around the Navy table, then sprawled on the floor when police said picketing inside was illegal...
Over the years, Eaton expanded the original Forest Lawn to 317 acres, opened new ones in Hollywood Hills, Cypress and Covina. But not without opposition. When his plans for Covina became known, outraged residents rushed out to picket, carrying signs reading "Drop Dead Elsewhere" and "Land of the Free or Home of the Grave?" Overnight, Eaton's men buried six bodies in the property-the exact number necessary, under California law, to constitute a cemetery...
...picketing was never wholly successful. There is always an available supply of unskilled agricultural labor and most of the Mexican-Americans, knowing nothing of American labor history, felt no compunction about crossing the picket lines. The Delano Record, the town's conservative bi-weekly newspaper, and the California Farmer, the grower's newspaper, referred to the union as Communist-dominated. Berkeley students who came down to Delano to help in the Huelga were quickly labelled "outside agitators." The Catholic bishop in Fresno, at first a Huelga sympathizer, turned against the strike and claimed that the people were not being honestly...
...Freedom House, a residence and office he set up for the youth council. So "totally immersed" in the Negro's problems is he, says his superior, St. Boniface's Pastor Eugene Bleidorn, that Father Groppi is "a Negro with white skin." Adds Groppi himself: "I will picket with the Negro, I will go South with him, I will go to jail with him, and I will hang with him if it need...
...increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire 18% package. Still, militant union members were clearly unhappy about the size of the increase and threatened to remain on picket lines until they get more. If they do, they may face a further problem: a 1954 law makes strikers liable, at parliamentary discretion, to jail terms if they refuse to obey an order to return to their jobs. By week's end a nervous government had yet to enforce...