Strikes!

(6571) Strikes, Gastonia Textile Strike, North Carolina, 1929

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:31:42 -0500

Two women confront an armed soldier during the Loray Mills Textile Strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(5499) Copper Country Strike, Strike Support, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:43 -0500

A dog, identified as “Topsy” in a different image, smokes a pipe and wears a coat that reads “DON’T GO TO CALUMET OR HANCOCK MICH WHERE ALL MINERS ARE ON STRIKE.”

(6562) Strikes, San Francisco Street Car Strike, 1907

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:33:50 -0500

A unidentified man assists an injured strikebreaker in a tram during the San Francisco Street Car Strike.

A caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Riots during the street car strike in San Francisco resulted in the injury of 40 strike breakers, of whom four were shot and one was killed. What casualties the strikers suffered are not known. The photo shows an injured strike-breaking motor man being removed from his car by fellow strike breakers. Ten strike breakers were injured in this car’s dash through the rioters. Bricks, pieces of gas pipe, bottles and missiles of all sorts used by the strikers as ammunition can be seen.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6563) Strikes, Indianapolis Street Car Strike, Violence, 1912

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:40:27 -0500

Onlookers remove an injured strikebreaker from inside of a tram destroyed in the Indianapolis Street Car Strike. Six men were seriously injured and one man was killed during this particular incident.

(6564) Strikes, New Jersey Freight Handlers Strike, 1914

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:54:21 -0500

A group of armed deputy sheriffs guard the tunnel of the Susquehanna and Western Railroad against interference from striking freight handlers.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “In a pitched battle between railroad detectives and strikers on Wednesday, December 11, two of the former were killed and others seriously injured. Another battle took place between the deputy sheriffs and strikers on December 12. The mayor has intimated that he will ask that state troops be sent on the scene to protect citizens and property.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6565) Strikes, New Jersey Chemical Company, Violence, 1915

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:59:46 -0500

Three men carry a wounded man down rail tracks after a battle between strikers and sheriff deputies during the New Jersey Chemical Company Strike. The location is listed as both Roosevelt and Middlesex, New Jersey

Caption from the photo reads: “Fifty of the striking employees of American Agricultural Chemical Co. at this place were shot by deputy sheriffs in a pitched battle. Thirteen of the strikers are in the hospital. One is dead and three are dying. The picture shows one of the strikers wounded in the fray being carried off the field of action accompanied by a policeman. An investigation of the shooting is now in course of progress. It is said that a number of alleged ‘gunmen’ from New York who were employed as deputies are mainly responsible for the shooting.”

Courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6566) Strikes, New Jersey Oil Company Strike, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:06:36 -0500

Sheriff deputies armed with sticks stand in front of the Tidewater Oil Company’s gates during the New Jersey Oil Company strike riots.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6567) Strikes, New Jersey Oil Company Strike, Bayonne, Violence, New Jersey, 1915

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:09:38 -0500

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Wives and children of the Bayonne strikers look on as the men fight with guards. The wives and children of the strikers were forced to leave their homes which are in the immediate vicinity of the battleground between the strikers and the armed Standard Oil guards at Bayonne, NJ on July 23, 1915. They sought refuge on the green in front of the railroad station, from where they viewed the battle in which three of their number met death. Many of the houses of the strikers were riddled by the Winchesters of the Standard Oil guards.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6568) Strikes, New Jersey Oil Company Strike, Bayonne, Violence, New Jersey, 1915

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:12:44 -0500

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “This photo from July 21, 1915 was taken a moment before a striker was killed in the rioting of striking employees at the Standard Oil plant. In the picture the men are seen throwing stones, preparing to hurl them, or searching for weapons. In the foreground is seen a man with his hand thrust in his rear pocket in the act of withdrawing a weapon.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6570) Strikes, New Orleans Street Car Strike, Violence, 1929

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:27:12 -0500

The scene along Canal street during the New Orleans Street Car Strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A series of tumultuous riots in which two striking carmen were seriously wounded by bullets and scores of other persons were less seriously hurt, marked the attempt of the New Orleans Public Service to resume street car service and stirred all New Orleans to a pitch of tense excitement. The riot reached a climax when strikers and their sympathizers wrecked several of the public service buildings and set fire to a trolley.”

Photograoph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6572) Strikes, Coal Mine Strike, Hewitville, Illinois, 1932

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:36:18 -0500

Striking Illinois coal miners picket mine no. 58 at Hewitville, IL. The image was shot near the entrance to the mine, where approximately 10,000 pickets lined the roads.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6573) Strikes, Coal Mine Strike, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1932

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:10:11 -0500

Caption from the back on the photograph reads: “Members of the Indiana national guard air corps unloading ammunition and tear gas shells and bombs consigned to national guard troops who moved in to Terre Haute, IN, Aug. 3, to relieve the besieged 65 workmen in the Dixie Bee Coal Mine. The arrival of additional state militia planes forced the union pickets to abandon their two-day siege of the non-union workers.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6574) Strikes, Violence, Tube Company Strike, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1932

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:13:42 -0500

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “Citizen-deputies hastily sworn in, shown with handkerchiefs around their arms as they charged picket lines about the Spang-Chalfant Seamless Tube Co. plant firing tear-gas bombs and riot guns, during the fighting at Ambridge, PA, Oct. 5. The charge was made after pickets, strung about the plant to prevent workers from entering, refused the command of Sheriff Charles O’Laughlin to disperse. Deputies are shown crouching to fire and with guns leveled at their shoulders. Waves of tear-gas make the view indistinct.”

(6575) Strikes, Violence, Textile Strike, Paterson, New Jersey, 1933

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:23:30 -0500

Textile workers hurls stones at the National Silk Dying Company during the 1933 Paterson Textile Workers' Strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Silk dyeing strikers stoning the plant of the National Silk Dyeing Company on Oct. 20, 1933. Shortly afterward, the police sailed in and pitched battle between the strikers and police in which stones and bullets flew. Twelve men were injured.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6576) Strikes, Pickets, Restaurant Workers, Detroit, Michigan, 1933-1934

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:32:55 -0500

Dueling pickets outside of Fischer's Restaurant in downtown Detroit.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “Striking waiters picketing Fischer’s Restaurant in downtown Detroit in October. Owner established his own pickets in Swiss costumes and one in an army uniform. His methods resulted in so large a crowd that police were called to keep them moving.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6577) Strikes, Textiles Workers, Austell, Georgia, 1934

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:04:03 -0500

Caption from the back on the photograph reads:
“Picket by Dancing – With a string band to furnish music, strike sympathizers danced in the streets at the entrance of the Clark Thread Mill of Georgia near Austell, GA., Sept. 10 in order to block the way of persons attempting to go to work. Automobiles containing non-striking workers were halted in defiance of armed mill guards as some 200 pickets were on duty.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6578) Strikes, Transportation, Truck Drivers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:10:42 -0500

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Police and pickets of the striking truck drivers union battling in the market district of Minneapolis on May 21 when strikers attempted to halt trucks engaged in delivering perishable food stuffs.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6579) Strikes, Violence, Truck Drivers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:05:16 -0500

Crowds gather around the wounded after a clash between strikers and police officers during the Minneapolis truck drivers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Policemen and strikers alike were clubbed down as riots continued in connection with the walkout of Minneapolis, MN truck drivers. The toll of wounded in two days’ battling stood at 56, with 36 of these injured during the renewal of fighting May 21. Most of those injured were strikers. In photo strikers and police are shown in one of their sanguine clashes. One policeman was slashed with a knife.”

Photo Courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6580) Strikes, Violence, Truck Drivers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:34:55 -0500

Strikers and police clash during the Minneapolis truck drivers strike.

Caption from the back of the photo reads: “The crumpling knees of the special officer who has just been whacked on the back of the head with a table leg tells the story of some of the violence in Minneapolis, MN, May 22, in the second day of rioting in the truck drivers strike. Running three abreast toward the camera are special officers hastening to the scene of this melee, but they arrived too late to prevent this attack. Note the badges on the special officers. One special deputy was killed by strikers and their sympathizers.”

Photo courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6581) Strikes, Violence, Utility Workers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:39:07 -0500

A group of men attempt to revive Eugene Domagalski, killed during the Milwaukee utility workers strike.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “Eugene Domagalski, 24, shown on the ground, is the first person killed in the Milwaukee, WI utility company strike. He was electrocuted June 28 when he fell against a live wire while a mob stormed the lakeside power plant yards.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6582) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Trion, Georgia, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:01:31 -0500

Armed workers from the Trion Cotton Mill block the exterior of the building during the Georgia textile workers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Pickets carrying sticks, iron bars, and clubs in front of the Trion Cotton Mill, Trion, GA. Here two persons – one an officer – were killed in a clash Sept. 5. Deputy Sheriff W.M. Hix and J.B. Blalock, a strike sympathizer, were shot fatally. After the fight the pickets reformed their lines and the mill closed. The picket with the bandaged neck is Mac Harris, wounded in the fight.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6583) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Trion, Georgia, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:03:14 -0500

Armed workers from the Trion Cotton Mill block the exterior of the building during the Georgia textile workers strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6584) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Macon, Georgia, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:08:28 -0500

Workers use physical force to prevent a vehicle from breaking the picket line during the Georgia textile workers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: ““Photo (from September 6) shows scene in Macon, GA just after textile strikers had attacked and overturned an automobile in which three officials of the Bibb Manufacturing Company’s mill no. 2 tried to drive into the plant. A shot was fired by one of the passengers in the car just as the picture was taken, and several of the rioters can be seen ducking. No one was hit.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6585) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Saylesville, Rhode Island, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:18:46 -0500

A textile worker is carried off be two National Guardsmen during the Rhode Island textile workers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A strike sympathizer in custody of two national guardsmen at Saylesville, RI, on the night of Sept. 11, 1934 after a battle which started when some 4,000 persons broke through the ‘Dead Lines’ and engaged 250 guardsmen. The incident involved some of the wildest fighting in the general textile strike.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6586) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Saylesville, Rhode Island, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:45:00 -0500

A textile worker is carried off by a National Guardsman during the Rhode Island textile workers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A striking textile picket being dragged out of the riot [on Sept. 11] that raged before the Saylesville, RI finishing plant by a state trooper. It was reported that the battle in which 1800 pickets, 51 state troopers, and 32 mill guards took part was provoked by the mill guards who are special deputy sheriffs. Three men were shot and a fourth was seriously injured.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6587) Strikes, Violence, Dock Workers, Seattle, Washington, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:08:47 -0500

Mounted police drive dockworkers from Smith Cove Piers during the Seattle dock strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Mayor Charles L. Smith of Seattle personally led 300 police in a drive to disperse 2,000 pickets from the vicinity of the dock in Seattle [on July 21]. The photo shows mounted police, advancing information and using night sticks, driving pickets from the Smith Cove Piers.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6588) Strikes, Violence, Textile Workers, Macon, Georgia, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:25:27 -0500

Two women and a man confront a police officer who is holding an injured picketer during the Philadelphia textile strike.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “This unscheduled bit of drama came about at Philadelphia April 20 when police disperse strike pickets during a disorder outside the mill.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6589) Strikes, Violence, Street Car Strike, South Omaha, Nebraska, 1935

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:33:11 -0500

A view of a smoking and charred street car, destroyed during the South Omaha street car strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “South Omaha, NE street car union strikers and sympathizers burned five cars, and one man was killed and at least 16 wounded resisting police orders to disperse. As a result of the rioting, the National Guard was called out. Photo shows two of the street cars going up in flames.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6590) Strikes, Violence, Street Car Strike, South Omaha, Nebraska, 1935

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:46:34 -0500

A pair of street cars are burned the South Omaha street car strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “South Omaha, NE street car union strike.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6591) Strikes, Violence, Cannery Workers, Stockton, California, 1937

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:52:52 -0500

Tear gas besieges pickets and their supporters during the Stockton cannery strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Upwards of 50 persons, including an undetermined number of women, were injured in violent outbreaks as strikebound canneries reopened. This picture shows a cloud of tear gas beating back some of the rioters.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6592) Strikes, Textile Workers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:52:25 -0500

Strikers gather outside of the Artcraft Silk Hosiery Mill during the Philadelphia textile strike. In The foreground, a man prepares to hurl a brick through one of the mill's windows.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A pane of glass in the Artcraft Silk Hosiery Mill was the target this gentleman was lining up when the camera clicked. The photo was made during the disorders that occurred here yesterday, April 20, when union and non-union men clashed outside the plant. The disorders followed the failure of Mayor S. Davis Wilson to settle a dispute involving refusal of the hosiery firm to recognize a C.I.O. local. There was much window breaking until police used their clubs to disperse demonstrators.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6593) Strikes, Violence, Steel Workers, Youngstown, Ohio, 1937

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:26:34 -0500

Armed police officers set upon striking steelworkers during the Youngstown steel strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “The photographer who caught this action in the clash of pickets with police at Youngstown, Ohio June 19th, was right in the thick of the fighting. Picket at left is running from line of police. Note that the latter are using their guns as clubs, holding them by the barrel. Called a staged riot planned by strikers, the clash resulted in death to one and injuries to 28.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6594) Strikes, Miners, Picker, Oklahoma, 1937

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:56:56 -0500

Workers march in a demonstration during the Picker miners strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Pick handles upraised, a group of Tri-state union miners is shown as they started a march to Galena, KS, which ended when a burst of gunfire ripped through the ranks of the parading workers. Nine were wounded.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6595) Strikes, Steel Workers, Farrell, Pennsylvania, 1919

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:02:00 -0500

Pennsylvania State Troopers prepare to go on call during the Farrell steel strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6596) Strikes, Violence, Maritime Workers, San Francisco, California, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:56:54 -0500

Two unidentified men attempt to assist another who was shot in the head during the San Francisco maritime workers strike.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “One of the casualties in the battling between strikers and police in San Francisco, July 5, when an attempt was made to open the port long tied up by a maritime strike. This striker was shot in the head.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6597) Strikes, Violence, Street Car Workers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:29 -0500

A police officer escorts an injured man out of an unidentified building during the Philadelphia street car strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6598) Strikes, AFL, William Green, Railroad Workers, New York, 1930s

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:42:03 -0500

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “Testifying with gestures, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, is pictured before the Emergency Board appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the underlying causes of the threatened strike of 25,000 railroad employees here. The dispute involves the brotherhood of railroad men; 11 railroads and a longshore men’s union.”

(6599) Strikes, Transportation Workers, New York, 1927

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:47:03 -0500

A group of men, possibly hire strikebreakers, enjoy a meal in a makeshift restaurant during the New York transportation dispute of 1927.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “All plans have been laid by the I.R.T. [Inter-borough Rapid Transit company] for handling the threatened transit tie-up in the event that the company’s men walkout. Subway officials and leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees hastened preparations for a determined fight. Strikebreakers are being held in readiness to fill the places left vacant by the strikers.”

Photograph courtesy of the William Levinson Collection

(6600) Strikes, Funerals, Maritime Workers, San Francisco, California, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:54:41 -0500

Thousands pay respect to longshoremen killed during the San Francisco Maritime Strike as the funeral procession makes its way down Market street.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Funeral march, 1934, San Francisco general strike.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(30870) Copper Country Strike, Demonstrations, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Miners and their supporters march north on Stanton Avenue and turn on to what is now known as U.S. 41 during a demonstration in support of the 1913 Copper Country Strike.

Photo courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection.

(30871) Copper Country Strike, Annie Clemenc, 1910s

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

A studio portrait of "Big Annie" Clemenc, “Heroine of the Copper Country Strike,” holding her trademark American flag.

Photo courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection.

(30872) Copper Country Strike, Demonstrations, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Miners and their supporters fill the streets of Calumet during a strike parade.

Photo courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection

(30873) Copper Country Strike, Demonstrations, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Miners march through the streets of Calumet during a strike parade.

Photo courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection.

(30874) Copper Country Strike, Demonstrations, Mother Jones, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Mother Jones joins Calumet miners and their supporters during a strike parade. At her left is "G. Miller."

(30875) Copper Country Strike, Soldiers, Strike Duty, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Members of the Michigan National Guard report for strike duty during the 1913 Copper Country Strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection

(30876) Copper Country Strike, Soldiers, Strike Duty, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Members of the Michigan National Guard patrol the streets on horseback strike duty during the Copper Country Strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection

(30877) Copper Country Strike, Soldiers, Strike Duty, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

A view of a military encampment camp set up near 4th Street during the 1913 Copper Country Strike.

Courtesy of the Matt Kobe Collection

(30878) Copper Country Strike, Soldiers, Strike Duty, Calumet, Michigan, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

A group portrait of officers on strike duty during the 1913 Copper Country Strike.

Left to right: Captain Pickert, Major Hatch, Major Ingram, Major Harvey and General Abbey

(30879) Copper Country Strike, James O'Donnell, Strike Breaking, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

Street shot of James T. O’Donnell, employee of the New York-based Waddell & Mahon Detective Agency.

Hired by Sheriff James Cruise, O’Donnell supervised the "Waddell Men"- agents imported into the region as part of a "security force" to protect company property and scab workers. The group had a reputation for being particularly violent, successful strike breakers.

Photo Courtesy the Matt Kobe Collection

(30880) Copper Country Strike, Soldiers, Encampment, 1913

eclemens — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:01:42 -0500

National Guardsmen mill about their encampment while on duty during the Copper Country Strike.