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 i
Funeral procession in McKees Rocks for Bloody Sunday victims
Anti-Hoffstot cartoon about the 1909 strike
Mounted members of the Pennsylvania constabulary were deployed during the McKees Rocks strike. These officers were called "Cossacks" by the strikers.
Striker workers evicted from Presston homes, 1909
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The Pressed Steel Car Company was a builder of railroad cars and equipment based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that was founded in 1899, and had facilities in Pittsburgh and Chicago. It operated until
Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909
…dispute in the Pittsburgh area since the famous 1892 Homestead strike and was a precursor to the Great Steel Strike of 1919. Frank Norton Hoffstot's Pressed Steel Car Company, sited downstream from Pittsburgh on the south bank of the Ohio River in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, manufactured passenger and freight railroad cars…
Passenger car for the Southern Railway, 1909
Boxcar for the D&RGW, 1939
A skilled machine operator makes parts for medium tanks at the Hegewisch, Chicago, plant in 1942