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...stores stayed open. To show that Labor can learn new tricks as quickly as Capital, the clerks warned pickets not to use even linguistic violence (words like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week...
...packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area were closed, some 2,500 of the 8,000 Bridges Warehousemen were out of work and the hot car, having...
...healthy white mice, implanted cancers under their right armpits by injections of tumor particles of mouse sarcoma 180. The spleen extract which he prepared to use was in high concentration. In most of the mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage of cancerous...
First quake to shake this introverted world is the General Strike. Socialist John joins the strikers; idealist Anthony becomes a disillusioned member of a scab student battalion; effeminate Henry sighs for a role as mediator; cynical Theodore spits esthetically on both sides, cloisters himself in the library through...
...National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...