mystery picket

Esp. B.C.

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.

Quotations

1963

In its battle with the B.C. government, organized labor thought it had got around the law by using "mystery pickets."

1963

Mrs. Nan Bulbrook . . . told the Sun Friday she was hired as a mystery picket for the diamond drillers' union.

1965

About 130 painters and carpenters refused to cross a mystery picket line thrown up today at the Matsqui Institution for drug addicts.