Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bethlehem, Pa...
Upper Darby, Pa...
...Bethlehem, Pa.,police charged picket lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths. Men battled before the Harvester plant in Richmond, Ind. Strikers and police split each other's heads, fought with clubs, tear gas, pitchforks, baseball bats, brickbats. In riot's wake was a debris of hospitalized citizens, overturned autos, damaged property and partially shut defense plants...
...weather coming. From the rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...
...Bethlehem, Pa., C. I. O. workers walked out of the main Bethlehem Steel plant. The grievance: union officials said the company permitted balloting for officers of the Employee Representation Plan on company property...