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...Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
...Chrysler was no scab-shop. Union leaders had said during the General Motors strike that Chrysler had been the most friendly toward the union of the "Big Three" motor makers...
...days of the occupation lengthened, food supplies dwindled, in spite of foreign relief. "A stranger would have fancied himself among a population of ascetics. Everywhere there were symptoms of an appalling state of malnutrition: sties, boils and pimples, cases of jaundice and of scab, scales between the fingers, scurvy of the gums, dry abscesses on necks and behind ears." At first there were ways of getting enough food: if you were a woman, and young, or if you were rich enough to buy from smugglers. Author van der Meersch implies that the Belgians were comparatively well off, had plenty...
...Charles E. Coughlin (on his application of the terms "liar," "betrayer," "double-crosser" and "scab President" to Franklin Roosevelt) : I wish to close this campaign by apologizing . . .for words which ordinarily do not issue from the lips of a gentleman...
Miners' wives clutched their children by the hand, jeered "Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...