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A picket guard of about 350, mostly Hessians, were attacked by the Americans under Lafayette, and driven back to their camp, some twenty to thirty of them falling before the riflemen's fire.
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He was in every battle of his regiment ; was on the picket line at Kennesaw when a Federal force tried to surprise them, but he was on his guard while the others were unsuspecting, and would have been captured and the command surprised and endangered, had he not fired his gun.
The Warrington, in conjunction with the Bearss, Hammerberg, and Courtney maintained a weather picket 463 km west of the task force, provided a plane guard for the Tarawa during flight operations, and carried out standard destroyer functions ( such as surface security and search and rescue ).
The men were treated and paid as auxiliaries, performing guard or picket duties to free up white soldiers for maneuver units.
He left behind a small rear guard force to picket the roads south and west of Hanover.
CQMS Robert Flood, commander of the picket and who ordered the executions was court-martialled, charged with the murders of Rice and Lucas but was acquitted, claiming in his defence that he believed the four to be members of Sinn Féin and that his picket was too small to guard the four prisoners.
Cornwallis left a small company of German jägers and a few men from the Legion to give the appearance of a rear guard picket, and gave them specific orders to resist the American advance as much as possible.
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Randy Wicker, who had marched in the first gay picket lines before the White House in 1965, said the " screaming queens forming chorus lines and kicking went against everything that I wanted people to think about homosexuals ... that we were a bunch of drag queens in the Village acting disorderly and tacky and cheap.
" The National Negro Congress even went as far as to set up picket lines in theaters in the big cities where the film played, with its protesters holding signs that read " Song of the South is an insult to the Negro people " and, lampooning " Jingle Bells ," chanted: " Disney tells, Disney tells / lies about the South.
Santa Anna personally led a picket column of about 900 troops, but failed to encounter the sought-after leaders.
The picket was held in a location cordoned off by the police, approximately 1000 feet from the Church, for about 30 minutes before the funeral began.
For instance, during the 1939 New York World's Fair, Powell organized a picket line at the Fair's offices in the Empire State Building ; as a result, the number of black employees was increased from about 200 to 732.
The following day, the pilots ' union voted to end its strike, after about 800 of its members had crossed picket lines, and many others had taken early retirement or gone to work for other airlines.
The 74th and the picket battalion were decimated ; from a strength of about 500, the 74th lost ten officers killed and seven wounded, and 124 other ranks killed and 270 wounded.
At a depth of about 48m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them.
By October, about forty percent of the editorial staffers crossed the picket line, and many trickled back over the next months and others stayed out for the two and a half years of the strike.
Upon exiting the pond, a buddy joked with Gill about his scrawny frame with his ribs protruding, which he said looked like slats in a picket fence.
Shortly after the dispute began, TELUS blocked customers from accessing Voices for Change, a TWU-friendly website which had posted photographs of employees crossing picket lines, claiming concerns about employee safety.
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The picket was not resumed and the situation has been mostly quiet since then.
We reached there before daybreak on the 9th of August last, with a small amount of provisions, having traveled mostly by night and crawled upon our knees to pass the East picket line.
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But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.
Children were often placed at the front of this enclosure and the area had a distinctive white picket fence to keep fans off the pitch ( up until the 70's ).
In response to this new threat more heavily-gunned picket boats called " catchers " were built which were used to escort the battle fleet at sea.
Other inventions were also a result of the war, such as the screw picket, which enabled construction of wire obstacles to be done at night in No Man's Land without the necessity of hammering stakes into the ground and drawing attention from the enemy.
The employer may, on the other hand, allow less senior employees who crossed the picket line to keep the jobs they were given after crossing the line, even if the seniority rules in effect before the strike would have required the employer to reassign their jobs to returning strikers.
They volunteered to picket the far side of the Oscarberg ( Shiyane ), the large hill that overlooked the station and from behind which the Zulus were expected to approach.
Rivers and Zinn were among a group of faculty members who in 1979 defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.
As Zinn described in The Nation, though Spelman administrators prided themselves for turning out refined " young ladies ," its students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta.
There were numerous examples of striking firefighters responding to emergency calls from the picket line and several rescues were made in this way.
Bullet wounds were found in the backs of many, and they were reported to have been shot fleeing the picket lines.
Additionally, NHS ancillary workers formed picket lines to blockade hospital entrances with the result that many hospitals were reduced to taking emergency patients only.
Former striking miners have alleged that soldiers in police uniform were also used on the picket lines, to avoid publicising the necessity of bringing in the military ( this has never been proven ).
On a command from Webster, they then charged forward, coming to a halt 50 paces from the American lines because the North Carolina Militia, as noted by Sergeant Lamb of the 23rd Regiment " had their arms presented and resting on the picket fence ... they were taking aim with nice precision ".
The picket in Kamara had not seen the advancing Cossacks ( there is some suggestion that they were sleeping ), and it was only through Low's timely arrival and his shouts that they managed to escape and make their way to the nearest redoubt on the Causeway Heights.
Wickwire then descended on rope anchored to a snow picket and attempted moving Kerrebrock's tightly-wedged backpack from within the crevasse, but all efforts were futile.
'" Thus by the end of 1945 several versions of " I Will Overcome " were current as a gospel song, while on the South Carolina picket line, Lucille Simmons and other striking tobacco workers were singing a slow version of the song as, " We Will Overcome ".
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After radioing his sighting of U. S. ships, he attacked one of the destroyers on picket duty and was shot down.
On July 23, Confederate cavalry attacked the Union advanced picket line at Kernstown, leading to a sharp cavalry skirmish.
She combined boldness with a good deal of charm ( she was known for her fine singing voice ) and personal bravery ( she returned to the picket line in 1909 after having several ribs broken when gangsters hired by the employers attacked the picketers ).
Early on the morning of October 19, 1814, the American picket at Misener's Hollow, just east of the mills, was attacked by soldiers of the Glengarry Light Infantry.
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A prepared statement released by the student group Friday stated that `` extensive research by COAHR into techniques and methods of theater integration in other cities indicated that the presence of picket lines and stand-ins before segregated theaters causes a drop in profits ''
The Newport-based destroyer picket escort Kretchmer has arrived back at Newport after three months' patrol in North Atlantic waters marked by mercy jobs afloat and ashore.
Before this time, workers showed their fury by leaving their factory and standing in picket lines.
In 1965, Kameny, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, organized a picket of the White House and other government buildings to protest employment discrimination.
Many African Americans, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line to break the strike ; thus adding a racially charged tone to the conflict.
Secondary boycotts and common situs picketing, also outlawed by the act, are actions in which unions picket, strike, or refuse to handle the goods of a business with which they have no primary dispute but which is associated with a targeted business.
One of the results of these discussions was to set up a picket line at the American premier of Originale, a new work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, 8 September 1964.
One of the most important is that of picket fence porphyrin by James Collman.
Prior to this they had reportedly saved an episode of Saturday Night Live by breaking through a picket line and hosting the show against the union's wishes ; the episode was a ratings smash the likes of which the series had not seen since the 1970s.
The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event and by actors, threatening to boycott the ceremony, rather than cross picket lines.
The act of working during a strike – whether by strikebreakers, management personnel, non-unionized employees or members of other unions not on strike – is known as crossing the picket line, regardless of whether it involves actually physically crossing a line of picketing strikers.
Unionized workers are sometimes required to cross the picket lines established by other unions due to their organizations having signed contracts which include no-strike clauses.
Unions faced with a strikebreaking situation may try to inhibit the use of strikebreakers by a variety of methods — establishing picket lines where the strikebreakers enter the workplace ; discouraging strike breakers from taking, or from keeping, strikebreaking jobs ; raising the cost of hiring strikebreakers for the company ; or employing public relations tactics.
He was to be the keynote speaker at an AT & T stockholders ' meeting during a strike by AT & T workers, but he refused to cross the picket line and did not speak.
The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.
The decision by TVS, the new ITV station in the south and south east of England, to drop the Central-produced half of the last series in favour of their own Saturday morning programme No. 73 saw fans of Tiswas picket outside their Southampton studios.
The team's owner tells McGinty that Eddie Martel has crossed the picket line and will be re-activated by the Sentinels for the final game of the season.
It seems these accounts may have been exaggerated-Allen was aged 21, was listed as a drummer rather than a bugler, and other accounts speak of the troops being alerted by a warning shot from the picket.
Many blacks, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line, which added a highly racial division to the union's predicament.
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