On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:13:02 +0000 (UTC), Hawth Hill
> wrote:

>Was the union, or its officials, responsible? Did they encourage, or just
>give a wink and a nudge to, such activity? . . . .

That's the purpose of a picket line. Otherwise strikers would walk
around in FRONT of a building in public view to express their message
instead of blocking the gates of a plant around back where employees
enter. Strikes are primarialy acts of terrorism, attempts at
intimidation using threats and violence. Otherwise there's no purpose
to a picket line.

William R. James