Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...notice was publicly posted when four radar picket destroyers escorted the 70-plane carrier Shangri-La southward from Florida into the Caribbean. In response to requests from Guatemala and Nicaragua, said President Eisenhower, the U.S. would maintain a patrol to halt the shipment of arms or volunteers from Castro's Cuba to aid revolutionaries in those Central American countries. The U.S. intention had been less formally asserted weeks before when part of the 8th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1,500 men aboard the assault carrier Boxer and accompanying ships, began conducting training exercises in the Caribbean area...
...will win!" chanted 4,600 teachers as they hit the picket line last week in New York City. Circling 267 schools, they crippled junior highs, left students staring at blank blackboards in unattended classrooms (surprisingly little disorder resulted). Cried happy kids: "Hold that line!" The first teachers' strike in the city's history was called by the United Federation of Teachers, A.F.L.-C.I.O., which claims one-quarter of the 39,000 teachers in the nation's biggest urban public school system. The union had solid demands, from sick pay to duty-free lunch periods, but most...
While Bostonians go to the polls on election day, 200 to 300 integrationists wall picket the Boston Common to protest the dental of voting rights to southern Negroes...
...this is what happened. The perfect way both to fight for one's rights and at the same time to convince one's opponent that one is not an uncontrolled savage, is to fight, to resist--non-violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap-happy, sex-and violence- ridden Sambo, and dramatically demonstrated his commitment to middle class ethics...
...effective was the strike? The union claimed that almost all of its 70,000 members (out of G.E.'s hourly work force of 110,000) were out, but the company maintained that as many as 5,000 workers, who are represented by the I.U.E., were slipping through the picket lines and reporting for work at the 44 struck plants. By the fifth day of the strike, G.E. said that including supervisory and salaried personnel, it had 33,902 employees in the nine major strikebound plants where 98,390 employees normally work. One thing was sure: not nearly enough workers...