Word: scab
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...Scab" is a nasty word. In reading your article [p. 11, TIME. Aug. 6] which describes the Chicago Stock Yards strike where 75,000 starving and thirsty cattle from the drought areas were left to suffer without water by the striking livestock handlers, I was surprised, pained and grieved to find TIME describing as "scabs" these "boys from droughty farms...
...Scab trucks are operating with military permits in ever-increasing numbers. Despite all his harsh words directed at the employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding...
...discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided that the police were not giving them enough help they armed a posse, drove the picketing strikers from the factory. By well-planned accident Hagen...
...Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle is a blue buzzard for the workers. So come on out and strike...
...Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...