When members of Harry Bridges' C.I.O. Warehousemen's Union refused to unload a freight car which had been packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area were...
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