Take It Easy, But Take It

"Over She Goes! Halted by a bombardment of rocks, police ducked and watched as a crowd of demonstrators pushed over the automobile of a working employee Monday at the CIO-struck Fisher Body Plant in Cleveland. A rock can be seen flying over the head of a ducking policeman in the center of the picture and those round things at his feet are not marbles. Associated Press Photo 7/31/39"

"Everett, Massachusetts - Here is a striking view of tear gas routing pickets and strike sympathizers in the seaman's strike here. Note effigy hanging to outside telephone pole of an employment agency official that was strung up. Credit Line: Acme 5/2/1939"

FRISCO MURAL by Norman Rosten "Golden Gate is silent. The Ocean is calm and heavy. The open pier-sheds give the wind a speedway, bridges over the bay are suspended between stars: morning comes with mist, covering the city as gulls safely turn above the water: turning. The seamen are still there when the dawn comes, tall in the shadow of mist over the piers; their flag is not very clean but they carry it high, watching the gulls turning, turning... A stevedore says "We could paint slogans on that bird's wings, across the top, ONE BIG UNION FOR ALL COASTS and teach her to fly upside down around the world!" Across the wide oval, 450 men holding, deep into morning traffic laughed a voice  into the wind, flooding like light the cold..."

"Pickets On Wheels - Toronto, Canada, Pickets on roller skates roll along the picket line in front of the General Steel Wares Ltd Plant in Toronto where strikers seek CIO recognition. Credit Line: Acme 11/1/39"