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Relations between the four labor members of the board were not improved this week when A. F. of L. workers, protected by police, streamed through a C. I. O. picket line around International Harvester's McCormick plant in Chicago...
Recollecting that they "marched in a picket line last December in denunciation of the first open call to war in our colleges," the Committee has for its objects, "no A. E. F., no convoys, upholding the democratic rights of students and teachers, the right to speak out for peace, and education free of millitarization and war control...
...than anywhere else. Chairman of one of New York's 280 boards was the Rev. George T. Gruman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Gruman's district is a drab and musty slum, where elevated trains scream past, sidewalks are dirty or nonexistent, and unpainted picket fences fail to dignify the disheveled houses. Before Mr. Gruman, the Lutheran businessman and the president of a Hebrew school who sit with him on Local Board 229, paraded the poor of the district...
Outside Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Lackawanna plant, in freezing weather, Polish, Negro and native-born steelworkers angrily marched in a picket line, on strike. Inside, one by one, open-hearth furnaces shut down, production dwindled, came almost to a standstill...
...pound bracket, Dick Davidson was defeated by a 6 to 1 decision, and heavyweight Larry Picket, captain of the Yale team, felled Tom Rogstad with a body hold...