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Harvard's Committee for Wallace will join with other Young Progressives and with the Longshoremen's Union this morning in picketing the "scab ship" S.S. Mount David, currently docked at Commonwealth Pier...
...clock one morning last week, 600 pickets blocked the doors of the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Raucous and cocky, they greeted brokers and clerks with jeers, catcalls and boos. Girls who went into the building entered into a bedlam of epithets such as "stinking tomato" and "scab bitch." Wall Street wondered what had happened: the pickets did not seem to be the white-collar clerks, runners and telephone operators of the A.F.L. United Financial Employes, who had called a strike at the exchanges. Most of them weren...
...those is that the Club is willing, at any cost, to break the strike and to place the Union in a weak position for bargaining next year throughout the city. This suspicion is based in part on the fact that the Club has paid "scab" waiters during the past week as high as eight dollars per meal...
...beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near by was always another with its steel shutters invitingly half open. A bunch of youthful Communists, chilled by the biting wind, entered a bar in the Piazza Cavour to warm themselves with scab-brewed coffee, then rushed at a smaller bar across the square to force its shutters down...
...exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...