Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both practices set off public protest, but both worked. Petrillo had one vast advantage over other labor leaders. A music strike, unlike a coal strike, caused little or no public suffering; in fact it hardly diluted the endless flow of recorded sound which dinned daily in the nation's ears. As international president of A.F.M., Petrillo assumed unlimited power. The union's bylaws solemnly assert: "It shall be his duty ... to (a) enforce the constitution, bylaws, standing resolutions or other laws and resolutions or (b) annul or set aside same or any portion thereof . . . and substitute other . . . provisions...
Nearly 2,000,000 Britons signed protest petitions which were solemnly lugged into the House of Commons by the bale. Labor M.P.s uneasily totted up the probable number of angry voters: owners of Britain's 1,920,000* private cars and 500,000 motorcycles, probably 6,000,000 other Britons who customarily ride in cars, irate hotel, garage and service-station operators...
Admitting under protest a membership of over 3,000, the Student Apathy League dwarfs the more active HLU, HYRC, and HYD. League spokesmen point to their slogan, "Boredom Is a Fundamental Right," and state that they passively oppose everything, including passive resistance...
...know, if I cared to bother I would be president of the Student Council," trailed off the lethargic prexy of organized apathy. When forced to continue, he explained that in the last College-wide ballet less than half the men voted. "The non-voters lodged protest ballots for spathy, an I'm the titular head of the sleeping forces of spathy...
...Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout the nation 85% of small business establishments were closed...