Battle of Homestead Foundation - Charles McCollester Collection

The photograph is the front side of the photograph that depicts 4 armed policemen with white armbands during the 1933 Ambridge Strike. The backside of the photograph says Ambridge Pa Strike Oct/33. 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.

The photograph is the front side of the photograph that depicts 5 men of varying ages sitting at a desk covered in papers. The photograph is related to the 1933 Ambridge Strike. The back side is a newspaper clipping of the same photograph with the title reading, These Appointees of the Governor Investigate Industrial Police. The clipping is from the Pittsburgh Press from March 9, 1934.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.

The photograph has both a front side and a back side. The front side of the photograph that depicts policemen approaching Ambridge strikers on the street. The police are noted by their white armbands and their guns. The back side of the photograph says Ambridge Oct 1933. 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.

The photograph has a 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 back side says Ambridge Oct 1933. 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.

The photograph is double sided. The photograph is the front side of the photograph that depicts policemen intermingling in a large crowd of strikers and community members. The back side says Ambridge 6/15/1937. The 1937 Ambridge strike occurred in mid-June 1937 as a part of the Little Steel strike that swept the United States from spring into summer 1937. The Little Steel strike began on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937, by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). The strike was against many steel companies, but primarily Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The strike is remembered as one of the most violent of the 1930s but was successful in achieving the union’s goals.

The photograph is of 5 police officers and a spectating civilian setting up a machine gun in front of a car on a residential street. The force was to be potentially used against strikers during the Ambridge strike of 1933 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. 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.