Rat pumping is the art of keeping tall (ca 10ft) rubber inflatable statue of the rat impersonating non union contractor in erected position. Unions are the organizations which supply trained workforce for this noble task.
could there, then, be rat-pumping strikebreakers? then what would be the counter-demonstration?
my grandfather was with Armco Steel from 1916 until he retired (as chairman) in 1964. he hated JFK (for not setting steel tariffs, I think) but he really felt the unions were the absolute enemy (union members do not pump up rats near strikebreakers, they just infiltrate and through them into the electric steel furnace - makes a little pop.
one time at dinner my sisters, then 12, asked grandfather about the then-current steel strike, and what a union was, and what, for that matter, a strike was. he just stared at them, silently, like he was going to kill them.
yrs. better mousetrap