Word: scab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near by was always another with its steel shutters invitingly half open. A bunch of youthful Communists, chilled by the biting wind, entered a bar in the Piazza Cavour to warm themselves with scab-brewed coffee, then rushed at a smaller bar across the square to force its shutters down...
...exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...
Cops & Chaos. Scenes inside the schools were less orderly than they were outside; in some schools they looked like rehearsals for chaos. Bobby-soxers roamed from room to room, singing, cheering and shrieking. Some scrawled on blackboards: "Teacher is a scab." As soon as a harassed schoolmarm managed to herd one group of revelers into a classroom, another gang careened into the corridor. Policemen tried to talk the pupils into going home, but the kids were having too much fun in school...
Charlie covered the five-mile maze without missing a customer. At last police picked him up near route's end at 10:30 a.m., happily unaware that he had become a scab...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...