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Wall surrounding the Pressed Steel Car plant, McKees Rocks, PA, 1909.
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Mckees Rocks Strike Stockade around plant

Credit: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

To protect the plant from striking workers, and to protect the "scab" laborers who took their jobs, Pressed Steel in 1909 constructed a stockade that surrounded the plant, which it manned with armed guards.

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