Word: scabbing
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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...
...National Assembly. But the 14 million Frenchmen who own TV sets could not really tell for sure. Paris' Huntley and Brinkley-Pierre Dumayet and Pierre Desgraupes-as well as all of the other news regulars, remained off the air. Filling in for the eighth straight week were sketchy, scab-produced newscasts and a veritable festival of test patterns, canned variety shows and film antiques...
...soggy olive branch, tells Punk: "Oh, I just hate this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic-strip readers to his cartoon. "It's a form of brain washing," he says...