Word: picketeers
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...master pact to pay $1.12 and could not pay more if they wanted to, without violating their contract with OPM. But the machinists particularly wanted to force Bethlehem to sign the master agreement. They struck. Out with them went C.I.O. machinists from the other side of the Bay. Picket lines stopped other, nonstriking craftsmen, and eleven Bay yards were tight shut...
...State and Federal officials and international officers of the A.F. of L. charged with dirty looks and flying words. Most violent word hurler was pontifical John P. Frey, president of the A.F. of L. metal-trades department, who stormed: "If necessary I'll lead [nonstriking craftsmen] through the picket line myself to bust this strike." Back of the San Francisco machinists' sullen defiance was a tradition of autonomy, the conviction that they had the right to act without interference from the parent body. Mr. Frey's threatening attitude just made matters worse...
...opening salve of their Spring Peace Offensive, the Harvard Student Union will organize a "Peace Picket Line" in the Yard this noon to vociferously protest the war stand taken by F.D.R., President Conant, and the Administration...
Police kept the picket lines in motion, but declined to interfere with their activity. Th Ambassador made no comment...
...past among popular women's colleges, and deservedly so. It seems sad that it faces the prospect of becoming number one No-man's-land, unless the boys take to the unlikely alternative of tricycles. The situation seems to call for nothing less drastic than a College picket around the courthouse...