Word: picketeers
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...holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only a scattering from a few Pacific Coast yards responded to it. At one yard last week A.F. of L. boilermakers charged out and dispersed a straggling picket line...
...Picket lines had a concrete effect on several C. I. O. delivery truck drivers who refused to deliver the goods out of sympathy with their fellow union members, and two Law professors registered their protest against the University by calling off their classes for the duration of the strike...
...Professor Fred Rodell posted a notice stating, "I have determined to my complete satisfaction that the Union is a bona fide Union representing a clear majority of the service employees, and run neither by Communists nor by racketeers. I therefore intend to respect its picket line. There will be no class in intimation today...
Diplomatically, Russia and the democracies had come a pleasurable full circle. Franklin Roosevelt had squinted up his eyes, looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
...Picket lines sprang up once more, and C.I.O. leaders threatened to call a sympathetic strike among aircraft plants in the five eastern States. Out of patience, Washington sent Colonel Roy M. Jones, two other Army officers to Bendix to see that the Board's recommendations were carried...