Word: striker
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...meat strike died hard. In Waterloo, Iowa, one hot afternoon last week, a 55-year-old Negro, who had gone back to work at the Rath Packing Co. after losing $375 in wages, fired his pistol when a swarm of strikers tried to tip over his tattered Model A Ford. A picket was killed; a woman striker was wounded. The strikers took out their fury on workers' autos. A parking lot fence was ripped down, 27 cars were overturned. Frightened workers stayed in the plant that night, went out next day under protection of Iowa's National Guard...
...strike's third fatality. The others: a Chicago striker run down by a truck which he tried to stop at the picket line; an East St. Louis picket, shot by a non-striker...
Life for a picketing striker may be dull and it may be violent. For the group still roaming the sidewalks in front of the Harvard Club of New York, it is probably a little confusing...
...hour law because he thought it would hurt the little businessman, then supported it. He is against Big Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
Unfair. In Detroit, Striker John Moser asked a judge to order his boss to stop trying to hypnotize him while he was trying to picket...