Word: scabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chavez claimed that employers have an immense illegal source of scab labor in 18,000 Mexicans who cross the border every day as strikebreakers...
Since the strike began 27 months ago, students have worked steadily to eliminate "scab" grapes from stores across the country. They have been especially successful in Boston, which is 75 per cent "clean," said Chavez...
...strike on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, came up with another and loftier justification of his stand. "I was required to join AFTRA in order to work for the network," he said. "I know of no business except the broadcasting industry in which a performer becomes a scab to himself and his union because of films and videotape...
Longshoremen in San Francisco, refusing to handle scab products, let a $300,000 shipment of Schenley's grapes rot on the docks. During the winter the California growers began a counter-boycott against those merchants who refused to carry Schenley products, a good indication that the boycott was beginning to squeeze...
Back at Prairie Lodge last week, under the peaks of Baldy and Old Scab, Douglas and his bride appeared blissfully unconcerned by the headshaking on the Potomac. "We don't get much news around here," drawled Douglas. "On the short-wave radio we can listen to the broadcasts from the Bureau of Reclamation and Peking." The latter, at least, should be worth listening to if Peking approves the Justice's plans, sanctioned last week by the State Department, to visit Red China with Cathy this September...