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Show -289- the senator^ who was also a union officer? The Professor asked what had happened to the original picket signs; the ones he had on the tables seen stacked/at the first meeting he had attended. "Oh?" he said, "they were taken back to New York or Washington - wherever they came from? In the midst of his sentance he seemed to realize that the Professor was implying criticism of the new signs? "Don't you make fun of these signs," he said. "We sat up two nights making them? What were you doing on New Year's Eve?" he asked? "At a party, right?" The Professor agreed that he was? "I was sitting up making these signs?" The meeting; which was not really a meeting but an excuse to give out instructions for the conduct of the strike? did not last long? The President spoke first and introduced the picket captains and told the locations where the picket lines would be established? The Professor's station was an entrance to the campus next to the library? Most of the captains were members of the younger group of instructors? The lawyer?1 who bad been present at the meeting before Christmas? spoke, telling them what their duties were as pickets and what rights they had If accosted by the police? They were told that they would march, two by two? from the synagogue to the campus? then back and forth before the campus entrance for about twenty minutes. After that? they wo^ld disperse and go to their picketing stations. |
