Word: scabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program. Students in German universities are more radical and more militant than in the United States. At one German university a local transit workers strike brought massive student support. The radical students organized their cars to provide transportation for anyone who might otherwise use the scab-operated city trolley lines. Thousands of students responded and for weeks they controlled the city's transportation. The strike was successful-largely due to student help...
President Eliot of Harvard once said, "The scab is an American hero...
Finally, we perhaps ought to consider whether making scab deliveries during the just strike of members of the Teamsters Union goes "beyond the acceptable code of conduct...
...Observance of the strike varied widely. Some classes were half empty; others were nearly at capacity. In front of Sever Hall, 75 pickets patrolled with signs reading "U.S. Out of Viet Nam" and "The Corporation is the enemy of the Vietnamese and American People. Don't Scab." To avoid violating the picket lines, some professors moved their classes outdoors. In one physics lab, someone had chalked on the blackboard: "No classes today -no ruling class tomorrow." The instructor told the five students present that the phrase constituted the day's lesson...
China last week became the first Communist nation in history to have a non-Communist President. Long the reviled symbol for everything "bourgeois" in China, President Liu Shao-chi, 70, was expelled from the Communist Party and denounced as a "renegade, traitor and scab" as well as a tool of those familiar Red devils, "imperialism, modern revisionism and the Kuomintang reactionaries." Despite this attack, however, Liu still hangs on as President, a post from which he can legally be removed only by the National People's Congress...