Word: picketeers
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...give each of his papers a personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free to jump...
Situated in the middle of the floor of the Gordon McKay Physics Laboratory is a huge mountain of steel tanks, glass tubes, wires, and valves surrounded by a high picket fence. This is the famous cyclotron, known to the uninitiated as the atom smasher...
Riding to hounds near Charlottesville, Va., Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., once Ethel du Pont, tried to take a picket fence, fell with her horse on top of her, broke her pelvis. Wrote Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt in her column, My Day: "We must be grateful that she was not killed. I suppose one cannot blame the horse. . . . When I was a child we had an old nurse who used to say . . . 'Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth...
Promptly, fellow members of A. F. H. W. put the cooperative on its "unfair list," picketed it. Said they: "The union has to defend its wage scale, even against its own members." Said the Hancock officers: "If we do, we've got to go out of business." Fuming unhappily, Gus Geiges and other old union men were forced into the great labor sin of crossing the picket line. Union members, picketed by their fellows, continued to knit away inside Hancock. At week's end the situation was taken into bickering conference...
...women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away the concessions they had won in years of picket and strike; farmers, plowing shorthanded, clerks lending their savings, children leaving their homes...