Riot

Year of Publication
1922
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
338 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: William Ernst Trautman
Author: Peter Hagboldt
Publisher
Chicago Labor Printing Company
City
Chicago
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Abstract
A novelization of the 1909 Steel Strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County.
Notes

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.

Author Biography
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.
Time
1903-9
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