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The company was incorporated on January 7, 1905, with capital of $10,000. [3] Unlike the Pittsburgh Brewing Company, whose breweries were located primarily in the city itself, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh's breweries were in towns surrounding the city. [2] By 1907, the company had capital of $13,500,000. [4]
McKees Rocks was the site of one of the pivotal labor conflicts of the early 20th century, the 1909 McKees 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 by 3,000 others who worked for the Standard Steel Car Company of Butler and others in ...
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 8. The walkout drew national attention when it climaxed on Sunday August 22 in a bloody battle between strikers, private security agents, and the Pennsylvania State Police .
McKees Rocks Bridge: 1930–32 George S. Richardson, engineer Ohio River at mile 3.3 McKees Rocks: 2003 McKeesport National Bank: 1891 Longfellow, Alden & Harlow: Fifth Avenue and Sinclair Street McKeesport 1981 McKeesport Waterworks 1908, 1925 Railroad Street at the Fifteenth Street Bridge McKeesport 1982 "Meado'cots" 1912
In 1909, the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 occurred, when 8,000 workers at the McKees Rocks plant went on strike. [4] [1] In 1914 the company manufactured 12,000 cars of differing varieties, for Russia. By 1916 it produced a new car approximately every five minutes and was the largest car plant in the United States.
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The 1909 McKees Rocks Strike, also known as the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 This page was last edited on 11 ...