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Image Collection / Roland Marchand / Labor / Strikes and Violence

	U.S. Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania. Marchand's best picture of how the works looked in 1987. Roland Marchand photo, 1987. 8.12.6
	U.S. Steel Works at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1987, with chimneys against the sky. Roland Marchand photo, July 1987. 8.12.6
	The Ladies Auxiliary of the United Auto Workers parades in front of the Chrysler works just before the sit-down strikers emerge. The placard reads "Chrysler Ladies Auxiliary No. 5. We Stand Behind Our Heroe's [sic]." 1937. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, Vol. IV, 1930-1940, 1970, pp. 168-9. 11.6.5
	Homestead Steel Works of U.S. Steel Co. The view from across the Monongahela River looking upstream toward the major part of the works where the Pinkerton men would have intended to land in 1892 during the strike. Roland Marchand photo, July 1987. 8.12.6
	Homestead Steel Works of U.S. Steel. The view from across the river looking downstream toward Pittsburgh; there the Pinkerton men would have come up the Monongahela River to land at Homestead. Roland Marchand photo, July 1987. 8.12.6, 11.2.5
	U.S. Steel Works at Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1987. Roland Marchand photo, July 1987. 8.12.6
	"Rioters burning the freight trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh," July 1877. James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, p. 76. 8.12.6
	An artist's rendering of the "typical Anarchist" in the literary organ of the Deaconness movement within the Methodist Episcopal Church. Message and Deaconness Advocate, 1890. 8.12.6
	As the Haymarket bomb explodes in their ranks, Chicago policemen sent to break up the anarchist rally start firing wildly into the crowd. 1886. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-796. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, "Haymarket Riots," The Life History of the United States, 1974, Vol. 7, p. 95. 8.12.3, 8.12.6
	"Burning of the Round House at Pittsburgh by the rioters." July 1877. James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, p. 8. 8.12.6
	The 1894 Pullman Strike. "The Great Strike - Destruction of the Union Depot and Hotel at Pittsburgh. Drawn by Fred B. Schell..." Harper's Weekly, 1894. In Herbert Harris, American Labor, Yale University Press, 1938, p. 32. 8.12.6
	The January 1912 strike in Lawrence in answer to the new Massachusetts law "which…had cut the work hours," but the companies had "also cut wages to match while, at the same time, speeding up production!" In Bill Cahn, Mill Town, Cameron and Kahn, 1954, p. 123. 11.2.5, 11.6.5
	Coxey's Army on the Ohio and Chesapeake Canal. St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive St, Saint Louis, MO 63103. In Henry Vincent, Mass Violence in America - Story of the Commonweal, 1894, reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969, opp. p. 25. 8.12.6
	The Coxey Army in Massillon, Ohio, 1894. St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive St, Saint Louis, MO 63103. In Henry Vincent, Mass Violence in America - Story of the Commonweal, 1894, reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969, opp. p. 14. 8.12.6
	Carl Browne, Secretary of the J.S. Coxey Good Roads Association of the United States. Henry Vincent, Mass Violence in America - Story of the Commonweal, 1894, reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969, frontispiece. 8.12.6
	J.S. Coxey, President of the J.S. Coxey Good Roads Association of the United States, Massillon, Ohio. Henry Vincent, Mass Violence in America - Story of the Commonweal, 1894, reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969, frontispiece. 8.12.6
	"Fighting in Baltimore during the Great Strike, 1877....July 17, 1877 B&O Railroad announced ten percent wage cut for its firemen and brakemen." Harper's Weekly, 1877. In Irving Werstein, The Great Struggle - Labor in America, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965, pp. 96-7. 8.12.6
	"Sixth Maryland Regiment firing on the rioters in Baltimore," July 1877. Railroad strike. Harper's Weekly, Aug. 11, 1877. In James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, p. 58. 8.12.3, 8.12.6
	Anti-labor cartoon from shortly before the Los Angeles Times explosion, October 1, 1910. San Francisco laborites desired L.A. employers and labor unions to pay "equalized" wages. "San Francisco labor leaders went to L.A. and organized the town, compelling employers there to pay labor as high wage as employers in San Francisco were forced to pay." Los Angeles Times cartoon, 1910. Copyright 1910 Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Times. In Louis Adamic, Dynamite, Viking Press, 1931, p. 197. 11.6.5
	"Rioters compelling workmen in the St. Louis factories to suspend work...The city of St. Louis is the terminus of a number of important railway lines. The Mississippi is here spanned by a magnificent iron bridge which gives St. Louis direct connection with the States lying east of the great river...East St. Louis is thus a very important railroad point, and being so closely connected with its great Railroad neighbor over the river, the strikes on the two sides of the river were really one movement." 1877. In James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, pp. 395, 411. 8.12.6
	The famous "Revenge." "Workingmen, To Arms we call you, to arms!" In German. Arbeiter Zeitung, Chicago, IL, May 3, 1886. In John S. Kebabian, The Haymarket Affair and the Trial of the Chicago Anarchists, 1886, H.P. Kraus, 1970, p. 27. 8.12.6
	"Captain Ward calls for an end to the Haymarket Square meeting, May 4, 1886." Stock Montage, Inc., 6970 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60707. In Irving Werstein, Strangled Voices - The Story of the Haymarket Affair, The Macmillan Co., 1969, p. 78. 8.12.3, 8.12.6
	"Ruins of the Union depot, elevator and freight cars at Pittsburgh, July 1877." In James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, p. 112. 8.12.6
	"Strikers stopping trains at Martinsburg, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad," July 1877. In James D. McCabe, The History of the Great Riots, National Publishing Co., 1877, p. 24. 8.12.6
	"Last meeting of the Garment Workers' strike, 1913." Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America photo. UNITE HERE, 275 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001-6708. In Allon Schoener, Portal to America, 1967, p. 201. 8.12.3, 8.12.6, 11.6.5
	Richard Frankensteen being slugged by Ford goons for handing out union leaflets, 1937. See also LB-D-13, 15. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. The Detroit News, 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, p. 167. 11.2.5, 11.6.5
	After the brawl, Reuther attempts to comfort the bloodied Frankensteen. See also LB-D-13, 14. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. The Detroit News, 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, p. 167. 11.6.5
	Jubilant UAW Ladies Auxiliary parade before the Chrysler works just before the sit-down strikers emerge, 1937. Copyright holder unknown. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, pp. 168-9. 11.6.5
	Sit-down strikers at Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan during the strike of 1937. Sheldon Dick photo. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. FSA/OWI Collection. LC-USF34-040027-D. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, p. 166. 11.6.5
	Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen being attacked by Ford goons, 1937. See also LB-D-14, 15. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. The Detroit News, 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, p. 167. 11.6.5
	A contemporary artist’s rendering of the clash in Baltimore between workers and the Maryland Sixth Regiment during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The governor had called out the troops on behalf of the railroad company to quell strikes and riots resulting from the railroad's wage cuts. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., Vol. I, 1968, p. 497. In United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) News Online, Wed., Oct. 30, 2002. 8.12.3, 8.12.6
	A miner's family during the bitter 1939 strike in the coal fields of West Virginia. John Vachon photo. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. FSA/OWI Collection. LC-USF33-T01-001380-M3. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, p. 55. 11.6.5
	Chrysler strikers rallying with billy clubs and auto parts, warning scabs to stay away, 1937. Copyright holder unknown. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, This Fabulous Century, 1930-40, 1970, pp. 164-5. 11.6.5
	United Auto Workers organizers Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen show the effects of their beating by Ford's strongmen during an unsuccessful attempt to organize the Dearborn plant in May 1937. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. The Detroit News, 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226. In Eds. of American Heritage, The American Heritage History of the 20's and 30's, 1970, p. 339. 11.2.5, 11.6.5
	Philip Evergood, "American Tragedy," 1937. Conflict between labor and management. Copyright holder and location unknown. Collection of Armand P. Erpf. All rights reserved. In Mary Cable and the Eds. of American Heritage, American Manners and Morals, 1969, p. 386. 11.6.5
	Members of the United Garment Workers in Union Square, New York City, March 1, 1913, protesting the settlement made by the union's leaders the day before. The sign (translated) reads: "Our leaders say: strike settled - but this demonstration indicates otherwise." Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America photo. UNITE HERE, 275 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001-6708. In Ronald Sanders, The Downtown Jews, Harper and Row, 1969, after p. 306. 11.6.5
	First successful sit-down strike. United Auto Workers, Flint, Michigan, 1937. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. UPI photo. Corbis Corp., 710 Second Ave., Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104. In Eds. of American Heritage, The American Heritage History of the 20's and 30's, 1970, p. 338. 11.6.5
	The Maryland militia fights its way through a mob of striking workers in the streets of Baltimore, 1877. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 4, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 24. 8.12.3, 8.12.6
	A contemporary newspaper engraving of the burning of the Lebanon Valley (Pa.) Railroad Bridge by rioters in 1877. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 4, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 24. 8.12.6
	Burning and looting during a great strike in Pittsburgh before "order" was restored by federal troops, 1877. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-61644. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 4, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 25. 8.12.3, 8.12.6

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