Word: picketting
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...Ford was expected to repudiate a bill that Labor Secretary John Dunlop had eased through Congress. Part of the bill is favored by the AFL-CIO but is anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
LABOR. Ford has already committed himself to approve Labor Secretary John Dunlop's controversial "common situs" picketing bill, which would sharply increase the power of individual construction locals. Under the present law, a striking plumbers' local, say, cannot form a picket line to prevent carpenters or electricians or members of any other construction union from working on the same job. Dunlop's bill would permit such picketing...
...some areas imaginative citizens are fighting massage parlors and succeeding. Residents of Fremont, Calif, picketed two parlors and publicized the license plates of customers. After two weeks, one parlor closed, and the other agreed to turn into a legitimate massage service. Now the group plans to picket the town's seven remaining parlors...
Students at Penn were generally apathetic to the strikers' demands for wage increases, paying little attention to picket lines and support rallies throughout the strike...
...Highway 18 that their predecessors had learned 40 years before, knew they had a story. Violence had erupted in Harlan County, Bloody Harlan County, once more. Union men, their wives and children were struggling against scabs, state troopers, operator-owned judges, and union-busting Duke Power Company men with picket lines, prayers, pistols and even switches and brooms...