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Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front

Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front
Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Back
MLA citation style
Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front. no date. 1933Oct .
APA citation style
(1933). Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A277835
Chicago citation style
“Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front”, Battle of Homestead Foundation - Charles McCollester Collection, October 1933. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A277835.
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Title

Ambridge Strike 1933 Riot Street View Front

Subject

Labor History
Pennsylvania History

Description

The photograph is the front side of the photograph that depicts the riot at the Ambridge Strike of 1933. Those in white armbands are police and those without are either strikers or spectators. The 1933 Ambridge strike occurred in early October 1933 when workers at Ambridge's National Electric Plant voted to strike for recognition of their union, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, SMWIU, and wage increase. Subsequently, workers at Central Tube Co., Sprang-Chalfant, Wycoff Drawn Steel, H.H. Robertson, and A.M. Byers all joined the strike. All locations were met with a heavy police presence. In an attempt to break picket lines, a violent altercation ensued on October 5th, 1933. The altercation resulted in the death of a spectator, and over 100 injuries.

Date

1933-10

Location Covered

Ambridge, Pennsylvania

Time Period Covered

1933

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

BHF_CM_3_30_03

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contributing Institution

Battle of Homestead Foundation

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.