Word: scabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corkscrew Soul. Hartmire and eight other Protestant ministers have lately been in jail for "unlawful assembly" while picketing. Another minister, David Havens, 29, of the Disciples of Christ, was arrested for "disturbing the peace" by reading aloud to imported strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks...
...when the U S labor press typically billed The Class Struggle as an "irrepressible conflict between the toilers and the parasites." Today's labor press has climbed off the barricades, calmed down and grown up. In shifting from diatribe to dialogue, it has locked out such epithets as scab, fink and goon; it treats the bosses almost as respectfully as the workers. Amateur polemicists have been mostly replaced with professional journalists; the trend is from bombastic pamphlets to smoothly written, fact-filled newspapers that reflect a labor movement no longer on the defensive...
...managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...
...last week, despite sporadic huddles between negotiators and politicians, the city and the picketing welfare workers were as far away as ever from a sensible solution. From their ranks in the picket lines, the strikers hurled highly unsocial curses and epithets ("Scab!" "Fink!") at nonstrikers, while some union officers began calling for welfare families to mobilize and march on the centers...
...real evil of such a quasi-judicial board is its power to prosecute without a trial and the threat it poses to free speech. The SCAB merely has to prove that a person belongs to an organization which it deems to be of a Communist nature. Then, whether or not this person has actually committed espionage or any other illegal act, he can be forced to register (and suffer the consequences) or can be penalized by the courts for not registering. In the words of Justice Black, the McCarran Act is "a classical bill of attainder which our Constitution...