Word: scab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of the C.I.O. are more outspoken. Harry Bridges has long accused Beck of running company unions for the benefit of the employer. Since Beck began organizing the Boeing Airplane Co. last spring during a machinists union strike, other union leaders have called him the hardest names they know: scab and strikebreaker. But despite this, every West Coast labor leader envies him the power his tactics have yielded, and none can deny that he has won teamsters both wages and prestige...
...favorite practice of pickets was still all right. Under the Taft-Hartley guarantee of free speech, pickets could still vilify strikebreakers, yell "scab" to their heart's content...
Harvard's Committee for Wallace will join with other Young Progressives and with the Longshoremen's Union this morning in picketing the "scab ship" S.S. Mount David, currently docked at Commonwealth Pier...
...clock one morning last week, 600 pickets blocked the doors of the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Raucous and cocky, they greeted brokers and clerks with jeers, catcalls and boos. Girls who went into the building entered into a bedlam of epithets such as "stinking tomato" and "scab bitch." Wall Street wondered what had happened: the pickets did not seem to be the white-collar clerks, runners and telephone operators of the A.F.L. United Financial Employes, who had called a strike at the exchanges. Most of them weren...
...those is that the Club is willing, at any cost, to break the strike and to place the Union in a weak position for bargaining next year throughout the city. This suspicion is based in part on the fact that the Club has paid "scab" waiters during the past week as high as eight dollars per meal...