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Wall surrounding the Pressed Steel Car plant
Photographer: Unknown
Caption: Wall surrounding the Pressed Steel Car plant
Additional Description: To protect the plant from striking workers, and to protect the "scab" laborers who took their jobs, Pressed Steel in 1909 constructed a stockade that surrounded the plant, which it manned with armed guards.
Credit: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164134
File Size: 0.493 Megabytes

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