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    The Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909, also known as the 1909 McKees Rocks strike, was an American labor strike which lasted from July 13 through September...
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  • panels Maryland Pressed Steel Company, an American aircraft manufacturer Detroit Pressed Steel Company Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 Stamping (metalworking)...
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  • Pearl Bergoff (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Monk Eastman gang to "ride herd on the assembled scabs." In 1909, the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, fired forty men, and eight...
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    Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began...
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  • Pennsylvania, a borough in Allegheny County The 1909 McKees Rocks Strike, also known as the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Most of the factory workers who built Pullman cars lived...
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  • set up a shop just for passenger car manufacturing in less than two years. In 1909, the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 occurred, when 8,000 workers at...
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    William E. Trautmann (category Industrial Workers of the World leaders)
    drawing on his experiences as an IWW activist during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 in McKees Rocks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Born in New Zealand...
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    Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry...
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    a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S. The strike finally ended 52 days later...
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    Coal strike of 1902 (also known as the anthracite coal strike) was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern...
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  • Riot (novel) (category Industrial Workers of the World in fiction)
    novel based upon the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 by William Trautmann, a founder of the United States Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Miller...
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    The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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    attracted attention in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1906 and during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Further fame was gained later...
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    Rocks Strike. In the summer and early fall of 1909, some 5,000 workers of the Pressed Steel Car Company's plant at McKees Rocks went on strike, joined...
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    General Strike of 1910 was a labor strike by trolley workers of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company that grew to a citywide riot and general strike in Philadelphia...
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  • Annapolis riot of 1919, June 27, Annapolis, Maryland 1919 – Boston Police Strike, September 9–11, Boston, Massachusetts 1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, September...
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    the rate of 2,000 per week. Major industries in East St. Louis included Aluminum Ore Company, American Steel Foundry, Republic Iron & Steel, Obear Nester...
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    Lincoln County War (category History of Lincoln County, New Mexico)
    Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy...
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    railroad strike of 1877 was a series of work stoppages and civil unrest in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred as part of the larger national strikes and rioting...
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    of white women, breeding an expectation of entitlement to these things. When wages contract, job stability is threatened, cultural norms are pressed (e...
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    Joseph G. Armstrong (category Mayors of Pittsburgh)
    for County Coroner in 1904. He was coroner during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909. He died of pneumonia in Pittsburgh on November 19, 1931, and is...
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    Syndicalism (category Industrial Workers of the World)
    of 1906–1907 by miners' strikes, the Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, the Brotherhood of Timber Workers' strikes in...
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    The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the...
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  • leave Pressed Steel during the Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909, because he joined Pullman in the later part of that year, where he was co-designer of the...
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  • States portal List of strikes List of striking US workers by year Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1973-01-01). "Analysis of Work Stoppages, 1971 :...
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    the victory at the Battle of the Boyne (1689) of King William III (also Prince of Orange), over the former King James II of England (a Catholic, who had...
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    Industrial Worker (category Industrial Workers of the World publications)
    radical bookstores, demonstrations, strikes, and labor rallies.[citation needed] It covers industrial conditions, strikes, workplace organizing experiences...
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  • 6 May 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-12. Steel, Edward M. The court-martial of Mother Jones, page 61 "The Draper Strike of 1913". Retrieved 2015-11-14. Lendman...
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  • Mrs. Beautiful (category Fiction set in 1909)
    of the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 in nearby McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/PressedSteelStrike.htm Pressed...
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