Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia

Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944

Item Set

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  Signal Corps employees transported via truck

  1944-08-01
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  Navy Yard workers stranded

  1944-08-01
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  Navy Yard workers stranded

  1944-08-01
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  Subway rider peruses Roosevelt's directive

  1944-08-04
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  Stranded Navy Yard workers

  1944-08-01
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  Navy Yard workers headed home

  1944-08-01
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  Truck brings employees home during P.T.C. walkout

  1944-08-01
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  Elevated trains locked for P.T.C travelers

  1944-08-01
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  War plant workers wait for transportation

  1944-08-01
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  Soldier and woman on public transit

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  James Stewart practices operating trolley car

  1944-07-31
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  First African American trained by P.T.C.

  1944-07-31
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  Violence in Strike Scored at Hearing

  1944-08-02
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  U.S. Ready to Act Speedily against Defiant Strikers

  1944-08-05
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  Employees of P.T.C. to hold meeting

  1945-10-26
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  Gen. Hayes' statement against interference

  1944-08-04
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  Award given to head of P.T.C. strike troops

  1945-08-09
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  Hayes says strike will cost lives

  1944-04-07
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  Troops camp here; grand jury probe ordered by Biddle

  1944-08-05
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  4 fired in P.T.C. strike seek their old jobs

  1944-12-06
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  Leader of P.T.C. strike an employee since 1923

  1944-08-06
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  A mix up in McMenamins embarrasses operator

  1944-08-03
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  McMenamin insists he has no regrets

  1944-08-07
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  Bail posted by 21 more P.T.C. men

  1944-10-07
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  U.S. arrests McMenamin and 3 other strike chiefs under Smith-Conally Act

  1944-08-06