Word: picketting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student strike called by the Boston University Student Union to protest "political repression" began yesterday with boycott leaders claiming that as many as 80 per cent of the university's 17,000 students refused to cross the non-obstructive picket lines placed in front of classroom buildings...
...sketching in the miserable background of the migrant farm worker. Ethnic Historian Matthiessen scrambles to provide a brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...
...obstructive picket lines will be set up from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Commonwealth Avenue in front of the different B.U. schools...
...Rights cited include the right "to organize and join political associations, to convene and conduct public meetings, to publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, and to advocate and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice...
...last year caused a supply shortage that was felt by the war-planners. During the G. E. strike, a truly ominous one in many ways for the producers of war related goods. the manager of G. E.'s Schenectady, N. Y. plant brought a Defense Department representative to the picket lines to talk to the workers. Hearing that the strike was directly handicapping the war effort, that it was aiding and abetting Russia's conspiracy for world conquest, the workers chanted, "Fuck...