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...hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop. Director Giuseppe de Santis gets a sweaty authenticity into his scenes in the barracks and fields, and devotes a lot of deserved footage to Silvana's Grecian profile and womanly body...
Across the street, little knots of printers, pressmen and stereotypers watched passively, still refusing to cross the lines. Occasionally, the ugly cry of "Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three...
...here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram and we'll take care of you, you lousy scab!" yelled a red-scarved striker. Another scrambled to the tram top. While thousands watched, the Leopoldist and anti-Leopoldist squared off, pummeled each other, the proletarian champions of the factions splitting Belgium...
Officials of the C.I.O. are more outspoken. Harry Bridges has long accused Beck of running company unions for the benefit of the employer. Since Beck began organizing the Boeing Airplane Co. last spring during a machinists union strike, other union leaders have called him the hardest names they know: scab and strikebreaker. But despite this, every West Coast labor leader envies him the power his tactics have yielded, and none can deny that he has won teamsters both wages and prestige...
...favorite practice of pickets was still all right. Under the Taft-Hartley guarantee of free speech, pickets could still vilify strikebreakers, yell "scab" to their heart's content...