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Last week the iron-gated entrances to the mines of Sains were locked. Outside the gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
What does a striker on the picket line think about? Orrin Cromwell Evans thought about comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...
Clubs & Spears. There was a struggle. A mounted cop wrested a U.S. flag from a marcher. Strikers tried to pull policemen off their horses. Police sticks whacked at heads and bodies. Result: one striker in a hospital; seven men arrested...
Holiday in the Sun. In Los Angeles, steel and electrical workers picketed or sat under beach umbrellas. For some, it was like a holiday. Theaters and stores in the Huntington Park industrial district did a roaring business. Said one striker: "All during the war I was on the night shift and now I'm going to see every damn wrestling match I can until the strike's over...
During all these efforts to reach agreement, lasting a minimum of two months, work stoppages of any sort are prohibited by law. Penalties for violations are stiff: $20 for each day a striker is illegally absent from work, $200 a day for unions which call an illegal strike, $500 a day for employers who attempt an illegal lockout...