HELICOPTER USED TO OUTWIT STRIKERS
Received Monday, 8.55 p.m. NEW YORK, Mar. 10. A helicopter soaring above enraged pickets, established wliat is believed to be a precedent in picketline circumvention by making seven hotirly landiiigs with raw materials in the yard of the Cornell-Buhilier Biectric Corporation where a wage dispute has heen in progress since Thursday. The pickets are memoers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. They are "being defied hy 2400 production employees, members of the International Brotherhood oi' Electrical Workers who have remained on the job. The company was prevented . hy a 24-hour picket line from having materials brought into the plant hy ,trucks. It then hired a helicopter. The company, in order to fotestall a' possible extension of the picket line, declined to diSclose the helicopter 's home field or the source of the materials it was ferrying.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 March 1947, Page 5
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