Hellraisers Journal: McKees Rocks Pressed Steel Car Plant Called a Prison; Imported Strikebreakers Held in Stockade

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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday September 1, 1909
Sensational Testimony Given Concerning McKees Rocks Steel Car Company

From The New York Times of August 28, 1909:

STEEL CAR PLANT CALLED A PRISON
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Strikebreakers Testify They Were Held
in Stockade Against Their Will.
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FOOD, UNFIT AND SCARCE
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Threats of Violence and Confinement
In Box Car Kept Men in State of
Terror, Witnesses Say.

From a Staff Correspondent of THE NEW YORK TIMES.

McKees Rocks Strike, Stockade, Loco Fmen Mag p715, Nov 1919 —–

PITTSBURG, Aug. 27.-The testimony presented before the Government investigation to-day in continuance of the conditions existing at the Pressed Steel Car Company’s works at McKees Rocks was the most sensational that has ever been heard so far.

Nathaniel Shaw, a strikebreaker from New York, was the star witness. He testified that he wanted to leave the plant the day after he arrived, but was intimidated and prevented from doing so.

His accusations were brought chiefly against Sam Cohen, the man who is immediately under Leo C. Bergoff, in charge of the strikebreakers. He said that Sam Cohen has surrounded himself with about thirty-five men, whom he has installed in the positions of company guardsmen, and that these men back Cohen in all his acts of tyrannical control. He told about gambling within the work and of winning $50 from a Deputy Sheriff.

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