TY - SER KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - railroad industry KW - labor strikes KW - trade unions KW - lockouts KW - Pressed Car Steel Strike of 1909 KW - William Trautmann (1869-1940) KW - Lillian Russell (1860/1-1922) KW - Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917) KW - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) KW - Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers KW - Pressed Steel Car Company KW - steel industry AU - William Ernst Trautman AU - Peter Hagboldt AB - A novelization of the 1909 Steel Strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County. C1 - 1903-9 C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; McKees Rocks C4 - Labor; Roman à clef CY - Chicago LA - English M3 - Novel N1 -
Originally published as Hammers of Hell in 1921.
Trautmann combines strike experiences with the concepts of workers' councils and industrial democracy popular in the reactionary climate of the 1920s.
N2 - A novelization of the 1909 Steel Strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County. PB - Chicago Labor Printing Company PP - Chicago PY - 1922 RN - William Ernst Trautman (1869-1940) was born to German-American parents in New Zealand. He completed an apprenticeship in brewing in Poland and Germany and in 1890 arrived in Milwaukee, where he joined the brewers union and edited the city's newspaper. In Chicago he became one of the six founding members in 1904 of the Wobblies. Peter Hagboldt (1886-1943) was a professor of German at the University of Chicago. EP - 338 p. TI - Riot ER -