Word: picketeers
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Last week, after the election, Univis reopened, gave an 11?-an-hour raise to returning workers. The union retaliated by drawing "observers"' from other C.I.O. unions to strengthen its picket lines...
...since the 1913 flood had Dayton been so excited. One day last week, word spread that big trouble was brewing on the picket lines at the Univis Lens Co. Some 7,500 Daytonians turned out to watch. They saw 160 policemen move in, pour tear gas into a yelling union mob. A savage, three-month-old strike in which heads had been bloodied, stink bombs tossed at non-strikers, ribs prodded by police billies, had reached its climax...
...extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students often join unions, and two years ago the college gave one coed full credit when she spent most of her work term on a picket line...
...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...