Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers)[1] congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. 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. Picketers normally endeavor to be non-violent. It can have a number of aims, but is generally to put pressure on the party targeted to meet particular demands. This pressure is achieved by harming the business through loss of customers and negative publicity, or by discouraging or preventing workers from entering the site and thereby preventing the business from operating normally.
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The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for their war service in 1924 (thus the name Bonus Army). Since this was during the Great Depression, the WWI veterans needed their bonuses quickly. However, thousands of these people (said to have been 20,000) were going to get their bonus years from then. It was like being promised something but not being given what they were promised. The Bonus Army set up a Hooverville (shantytown) in the U.S. Capitol lawn in 1932. They were protesting for their bonuses, when President Hoover sent the U.S. Army to clear them out. At first, the Bonus Army believed that the army was there for them. They cheered and waved their American Flags. Despite their expectations, the army came with tear gas, guns, and bayonets. They were not there to help the Bonus Army. As a result, many people were injured and hurt, and an infant died. The Bonus Army was no more, their Hooverville was torn down, and billy clubs were used on the resistant people. President Hoover claimed he had rescued the country from mob action; while Americans were disappointed and hung their heads in shame.
The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for their war service in 1924 (thus the name Bonus Army). Since this was during the Great Depression, the WWI veterans needed their bonuses quickly. However, thousands of these people (said to have been 20,000) were going to get their bonus years from then. It was like being promised something but not being given what they were promised. The Bonus Army set up a Hooverville (shantytown) in the U.S. Capitol lawn in 1932. They were protesting for their bonuses, when President Hoover sent the U.S. Army to clear them out. At first, the Bonus Army believed that the army was there for them. They cheered and waved their American Flags. Despite their expectations, the army came with tear gas, guns, and bayonets. They were not there to help the Bonus Army. As a result, many people were injured and hurt, and an infant died. The Bonus Army was no more, their Hooverville was torn down, and billy clubs were used on the resistant people. President Hoover claimed he had rescued the country from mob action; while Americans were disappointed and hung their heads in shame.
The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for their war service in 1924 (thus the name Bonus Army). Since this was during the Great Depression, the WWI veterans needed their bonuses quickly. However, thousands of these people (said to have been 20,000) were going to get their bonus years from then. It was like being promised something but not being given what they were promised. The Bonus Army set up a Hooverville (shantytown) in the U.S. Capitol lawn in 1932. They were protesting for their bonuses, when President Hoover sent the U.S. Army to clear them out. At first, the Bonus Army believed that the army was there for them. They cheered and waved their American Flags. Despite their expectations, the army came with tear gas, guns, and bayonets. They were not there to help the Bonus Army. As a result, many people were injured and hurt, and an infant died. The Bonus Army was no more, their Hooverville was torn down, and billy clubs were used on the resistant people. President Hoover claimed he had rescued the country from mob action; while Americans were disappointed and hung their heads in shame.
While once viewed as annoying picketers, suffragettes are now known as crusaders of women's rights.
I have reviewed the site and exhibits, as counsel for the church before SCOTUS. The seven picketers stood almost 1100 feet from the church as the crow flies, and closer to 1400 using the driving route. In a large multi-building complex, the church was in the NE quadrant; the picketers at the SW tip. People attending came off a main road on the north edge, and entered a NW entrance, or off a main road on the east edge and entered a SE entrance. No one going to the funeral drove by, saw or heard the Westboro picketers. A video taken by a videographer of the funeral procession route coming and going shows that it was physically impossible for anyone to have seen the picketers, or the tips of their signs, or anything else. Further, hundreds of bikers, veterans, military and citizens stood immediately outside the church, on the roads up in the complex leading to/from the church, and down by the school at the SW tip between the Westboro picketers and the church. They were noisy, intrusive, splashy--as they had their patriotic pep rally. The Westboro picketers, on the other hand, were quiet, peaceful, lawful, speaking and singing in plain voice (without amplification). The whole nation knows the Westboro picketers are peaceful and lawful. You couldn't care less about the dead soldiers or your families. This is a simple proposition, to wit, you hate the words, and you want the strong arm of the government/military to make us shut up saying the soldiers are dying for your sins. But we have a duty to say the words, and we will faithfully say them until our testimony is complete. Thanks. Margie Phelps, WBC
A group of marchers carrying signs in front of a place is called either a protest, protesters, or picketers.
Comet is a computer store based in the United Kingdom. In February 2010, the company saw picketers at their stores because of their lack of service of faulty laptops sold by the company.
Condit put on his wool sweater and walked into the picket lines and talked with picketers. He helped to find compromises that brought the strike to an end, and he won the enduring respect of the union members and of Boeing's engineers as well.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern PIC----R-. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter I and 3rd letter C and 8th letter R. In alphabetical order, they are: picketers picometre
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern PI-KE----. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter I and 4th letter K and 5th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: pickeered pickeerer pickerels pickeries picketers picketing pinkening pinkerton
Mining deaths in England have decreased significantly over the years. As of recent data, the number of fatalities in British mines is typically less than ten per year. Strict safety regulations and improved technology have contributed to this decline in mining-related deaths.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 13 words with the pattern P--K--E--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter P and 4th letter K and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: packagers packsheet pawkiness perkiness peskiness pickerels picketers pickiness pinkiness pocketers porkiness puckerers punkiness
after the panic of 1873 and the ensuing depression the major rail lines in the east had cut wages. in 1877 they made another 10 percent cut, which led most of the railroad workers at Martinsburg, west virginia, to walk off the job and block the tracks. but without organized direction, however, the group of picketers degenerated into a mob that burned and plundered railroad property
The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for their war service in 1924 (thus the name Bonus Army). Since this was during the Great Depression, the WWI veterans needed their bonuses quickly. However, thousands of these people (said to have been 20,000) were going to get their bonus years from then. It was like being promised something but not being given what they were promised. The Bonus Army set up a Hooverville (shantytown) in the U.S. Capitol lawn in 1932. They were protesting for their bonuses, when President Hoover sent the U.S. Army to clear them out. At first, the Bonus Army believed that the army was there for them. They cheered and waved their American Flags. Despite their expectations, the army came with tear gas, guns, and bayonets. They were not there to help the Bonus Army. As a result, many people were injured and hurt, and an infant died. The Bonus Army was no more, their Hooverville was torn down, and billy clubs were used on the resistant people. President Hoover claimed he had rescued the country from mob action; while Americans were disappointed and hung their heads in shame.
The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for their war service in 1924 (thus the name Bonus Army). Since this was during the Great Depression, the WWI veterans needed their bonuses quickly. However, thousands of these people (said to have been 20,000) were going to get their bonus years from then. It was like being promised something but not being given what they were promised. The Bonus Army set up a Hooverville (shantytown) in the U.S. Capitol lawn in 1932. They were protesting for their bonuses, when President Hoover sent the U.S. Army to clear them out. At first, the Bonus Army believed that the army was there for them. They cheered and waved their American Flags. Despite their expectations, the army came with tear gas, guns, and bayonets. They were not there to help the Bonus Army. As a result, many people were injured and hurt, and an infant died. The Bonus Army was no more, their Hooverville was torn down, and billy clubs were used on the resistant people. President Hoover claimed he had rescued the country from mob action; while Americans were disappointed and hung their heads in shame.