Word: picketings
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...miner put it this way at a meeting of strikers: "I'll tell you something boys, and I'm gonna tell you the truth now. There will be blood coming from the mines--not coal--unless we get a union contract. And if you try to get by my picket line you're gonna smell copper and lead, copper and lead...
There are no picket lines in eastern Kentucky today. The miners have agreed to suspend open protests until the National Labor Relations Board rules on an injunction request by the mine operators this Monday. But the tension continues. Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited...
Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...
...next morning's edition was on its way to the composing room. Atop New Jersey's Palisades, the Daily Mirror had rigged a fireworks display to celebrate the end of the affair. Outside the offices of the silenced dailies, hundreds of workers waited impatiently for the picket lines to part so they could dash inside...
...crowd at halftime the boos from the student section were clearly heard over the applause elsewhere. In that same year, Barnett was invited to speak at a forum program, but after a few months of indecision, refused. During this time, a large group of students planned a demonstration and picket line outside the forum hall...