Word: picket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
...layoffs. Among the big employers were General Electric, the Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
...holding out for a 15?-an-hour wage hike, $100-a-month noncontributory pensions and other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour increase. Trying out a new tactic, striking members of the United Auto Workers Local 501 observed Ladies' Day on the picket lines. Helmeted, club-swinging strikers' wives attacked three Bell engineers who tried to pass through. Deputy sheriffs, clubs at the ready, promptly arrested a handful of the women, then found themselves engaged in a pitched battle with the husbands. The melee was broken up only after the sheriff ordered...
...Navy still has plenty to do. Airbases and beachheads and land-armies have to be put ashore and supplied. Russia has 200 old reasonably good submarines which may someday become quite a headache. The establishment of an offshore radar picket line for spotting and knocking down approaching aircraft is another neat little job in itself. There is an increasing feeling that the fleet ought to spend more time worrying about these tasks, building up its anti-submarine forces and turning out specific anti-aircraft units like the fine new fast-living cruiser Worcester. There is an equally increasing feeling that...
...report of the picket lines outside the Manhattan federal courthouse, and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on Judge Medina by Communist sympathizers [TIME, Sept. 5] might well make thoughtful Americans wonder if it is later than they think...