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citizen picket
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a person who, though not a union member, pickets in sympathy with union members forbidden to picket by injunction.
See: mystery picket
Quotations
1962
Naturally the employers and the provincial government disapprove very strongly of the united support that has developed in labor's ranks. They don't like the citizen picket lines. . . .
1963
. . . when an injunction is slapped on a striking union, we . . . often move in as unpaid citizen pickets.