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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.
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 McKees Rocks Industrial Railroad (reporting mark MRIE), formerly the Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad (PAM), was a switching railroad that served industrial complexes in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
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
Pennsylvania Route 148 runs through downtown Mckeesport, ending in south McKeesport at the junction of Route 48. The Yellow Belt follows Route 148 from the east, to the Jerome Street Bridge . Route 148 Truck runs exclusively within McKeesport, following Market Street three blocks to the west of the narrower mainline Route 148.
The history of Pittsburgh began with centuries of Native American civilization in the modern Pittsburgh region, known as Jaödeogë’ in the Seneca language. [1] Eventually, European explorers encountered the strategic confluence where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio , which leads to the Mississippi River.