Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia

Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944

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  First rider too happy

  1944-08-04
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  Strike harms schools

  1944-08-04
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  Blames strike on New Deal

  1944-08-04
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  Police officials here from Detroit, Boston

  1944-08-04
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  Penalties for interfering with U.S. operation

  1944-08-04
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  War plants still report absentees

  1944-08-04
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  2 in car shoot boy in strike disorder

  1944-08-04
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  P.T.C. strikers in blood donor roles

  1944-08-03
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  Lack of FEPC law blamed in strike

  1944-08-03
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  U.S. procedure in P.T.C. seizure outlined by Federal officials

  1944-08-02
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  Back=to=job move fails after 2 hrs.

  1944-08-03
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  Absenteeism in war plants here is averaging about 10%

  1944-08-03
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  P.T.C. deferments cause confusion

  1944-08-03
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  When was the trolley strike early in the century?

  1952-08-25
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  Quill threatens strike in 1950 for PTC raises

  1949-10-08
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  Transit strike is 10th in Phila.; 1910 tieup lasted 63 days

  1953-01-14
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  1910 transit workers struck for 25c an hour

  1954-02-23
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  Please give the dates of early trolley strikes in Philadelphia

  1959-05-03
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  Broad field open in P.T.C. probe

  1944-08-08
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  Grand jurors will hear mayor and Malone in P.T.C. strike probe

  1944-08-08
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  Few arrests made for disorders

  1944-08-03
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  Explanation needed

  1944-08-01
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  Cio union hopes tieup will end by nightfall

  1944-08-01
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  Stores to open at noon

  1944-08-01
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  Hitch-hiking nurses find Old Dobbin is best bet

  1944-08-01