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The village of Kamara was the most easterly picket for Allied soldiers, providing a useful observation point for Lucan's vedettes.

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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 ).
Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.
By the 1880s, these had evolved into small ships of 50-100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats.
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.
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.
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 United States Supreme Court in March 2011 ruled in Snyder v. Phelps that church members had a free speech right to picket.
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 steelmakers offered workers the same wage increases that U. S. Steel had offered, In the Memorial Day Massacre on May 30, 1937, Chicago police opened fire on a group of strikers who had attempted to picket at Republic Steel, killing ten and seriously wounding dozens.
At this preliminary gathering, held in Donaldson Hall on the corner of Broad and Filbert Streets, the K of L was charged with conspiring with anti-union bosses to provide labor at below going union rates and with making use of individuals who had crossed picket lines or defaulted on payment of union dues.
On March 9, 1961, Anthony Anastasio, chief of the Brooklyn waterfront and its International Longshoremen's Association, marched in line with a picket group who identified themselves as “ The Federation of Italian-American Democratic Organizations .” In protest formation outside the American Broadcasting Company, ( ABC ) New York headquarters, they had come together to urge the public boycott of L & M, ( Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company ) products, and its Chesterfield King cigarettes, which sponsored " The Untouchables ".
Four days after the picket of ABC, L & M, denying that they had bowed to intimidation, announced it would drop its sponsorship of " The Untouchables ", maintaining their decision was based on network-scheduling conflicts.
In February 2009, UK news sources discovered that WBC had announced on their website that they intended to picket a youth production of The Laramie Project to be held at Central Studio, Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke on February 20, 2009.
By Friday, replacement workers and other drivers willing to cross the picket lines had restored service to normal levels.
The German picket ship ( Diether von Roeder ) had left its post to refuel and, as the British flotilla approached Narvik, they surprised and engaged a German force at the entrance to the harbour and sank two destroyers Wilhelm Heidkamp ( killing Commodore Bonte ) and Anton Schmidt, heavily damaged Diether von Roeder and inflicted lesser damage on two others.
Strikers had no source of income, some were forced by circumstances to cross the picket lines as " scabs ".
Following the start of the Palestinian second intifada in September 2000, in October the RCG joined a group which had begun to picket Marks and Spencer in Manchester over their support for Israel, and helped to spread this to other cities.
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 green Confederate volunteers had failed to establish picket lines for perimeter security, choosing instead to escape the cold rain and stay inside their tents.
Colonial cavalry, the NMP and the carabiniers, who could easily have fled as they had horses, died around Durnford in his last stand while nearby their horses were found dead on their picket rope.
In February 2005 it was reported that a " gnome garden " complete with picket fence had been placed in the lake as a point of interest for divers to explore.

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Mattachine members are seen leafleting, attending meetings and participating in the Annual Reminder picket in Philadelphia.
Braziers used to be a commonplace sight on industrial picket lines, although as strikes in the UK have become increasingly white collar, they are seen less and less.
Several times she is seen publicly chastising those she feels have been absent from the picket lines.
His house has a white picket fence that he's never seen, though his wife insists that it was there when they bought the house.
Owning a home with a yard and a " white picket fence " is seen as a key component of the " American dream " ( which also exists with variations in other parts of the world ).
Some French soldiers were seen and light companies were sent up in support of the picket.

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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.
From there, he urged women followers in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) to picket liquor shops and foreign cloth.
He later remarked to a reporter that the line was not a picket line, but a demonstration, so there was no harm in crossing.
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.
It is, however, recognised that there is a right to picket ( under the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 ).

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* Stockade fence, a variation of the picket fence that is typically 5 to 6 feet ( 1. 5 to 1. 8 m ) high with pickets placed adjacent to one another with no space between.
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.
" 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.
The following article is from an America West pilot that crossed the Australian pilots picket line.
One of the most important is that of picket fence porphyrin by James Collman.
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.
They argue that the picket line is symbolic of a wound and those who break its borders to return to work are the scabs who bond that wound.
No-strike clauses may also prevent unionized workers from engaging in solidarity actions for other workers even when no picket line is crossed.
The suburban " picket fence " appearance of the show's set is reminiscent of the " American Dream " of the 1950s.
Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in (" crossing the picket line "), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
Advocates of industrial unionism value its contributions to building unity and solidarity, suggesting the slogans, " an injury to one is an injury to all " and " the longer the picket line, the shorter the strike.
Mary is currently hiding from the law for her part in her father's murder, but is apparently safe, as she sends Danny a photo with a house and white picket fence ( her dream house ).
* 188. 8 Groundhog Mountain is has a variety of rural fences: snake, Post-and-rail, picket and buck.
It found their picket near the funeral is protected speech because it involves " matters of public concern, including the issues of homosexuals in the military, the sex-abuse scandal within the Catholic Church, and the political and moral conduct of the United States and its citizens ", and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family.
The Anglican National Pilgrimage takes place on the Spring Bank Holiday ( the Monday following the last Sunday in May ) and is regularly met by Protestant picket lines.
It prohibited jurisdictional strikes, in which a union strikes in order to pressure an employer to assign particular work to the employees that union represents, and secondary boycotts and " common situs " picketing, 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.
* The playing area is surrounded by a white picket fence and advertising billboards.
Benjamin Phelps, Fred Phelps ' grandson and creator of the first " GodHatesFags " webpage, is also from the Westboro Baptist Church which regularly employs picketing ( protest ) | picket signs such as these using fag as epithet.
:" The windows are open wide, and beyond these is the backyard swimming pool inert and green, within a picket fence.
" The Court held that a union picket in the supermarket parcel pickup area and parking lot was permissible because the " shopping center here is clearly the functional equivalent to the business district " of a city.
This protest is ongoing, and included a 24 / 7 picket for five years before an arson attack, and a continuing Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
Her husband, Elmer ( David Samson ), is a polyester-clad lout who owns an X-rated theater, causing anti-pornography protesters to picket the Fishpaws ' house.

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