Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning men & women strikers, about 3,500 strong, started another march along streets leading to the G.E. plant. Awaiting them were about 600 police...
Decision & Reaction. Next day, the striking local held a meeting, decided that it liked the Davis tactic of mass picketing -and the courts be damned. Next morning more than 1,400 pickets formed a solid wall around the plant. Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow talked with union leaders, asked them not to force his hand...
After two days, Philadelphia's authorities decided to act. Before dawn about 1,000 police, in cars and motorcycles, on horses and on foot, were deployed around the plant and in the neighborhood...
...blocks away, 800 strikers and sympathizers gathered in a park. At about 8 o'clock they marched to the plant. A union loudspeaker blared the national anthem. The demonstrators passed the plant-once, as Morrow had agreed...
...police tried to stop the marchers along the route. They were brushed aside. Police motorcycles charged into the lines, scattering the demonstrators. Again the Riot Act was read. The unionists taunted the cops: "Gestapo . . . Nazis . . . Cossacks." They threw stones as well as taunts. At a bridge leading to the plant, it happened all over again-a charge of mounties and foot police, with clubs swinging. Four men went to the hospital; at least 20 were less seriously hurt; 17 were arrested...