Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads had been moved safely to a nearby warehouse. Strikers, 3,000 strong, failed to stop the movement. Police fought them off with tear gas, firemen with streams of water. Heads were broken, 26 men were injured, but the only trucks stopped were those of some non-combatants not plying to and from the docks...
...Barbary Coast," but police, in pig-snouted gas masks, rounded up the rioters and drove them South of the Slot. Commuters to Oakland bound for the Ferry House and crossing the Embarcadero on the viaduct from Market Street saw the battle from above, felt the sting of tear gas, the impact of missiles...
...does nothing else, such a book as Property or Peace should impress its readers with the fact that in a world of tear-gas bombs, castor oil. strikes and politico-religious excommunications there is still such a thing as tart reasonableness...
...combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in convention to vote the strike and nearby steel companies were putting up barbed wire, importing carloads .of cots for workers to sleep in their plants, hiring guards, laying in supplies of tear gas and rifles. On the side of peace and Mr. Green were Michael Francis Tighe, 72-year-old president of the Amalgamated, and one fact: smart Amalgamated members were far from confident of winning a strike. At most they claimed only 100,000 members out of 430,000 steel employes...
...shouted a striker, "you have your open shop." Wagons and wheelbarrows of bricks and beer bottles were trundled up from the rear to throw at Guardsmen. Unemployed joined the battle. Boys in short trousers popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control, retreated only to come back for more. Once Guardsmen fired over their heads. Then, without orders, a Guard platoon leveled its rifles and fired. Two men dropped dead, a onetime CCC camper and an unemployed...