Riot
| Title | Riot |
| Year of Publication | 1922 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 338 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Trautman, William Ernst, Hagboldt, Peter |
| Publisher | Chicago Labor Printing Company |
| City | Chicago |
| Keywords | Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers; Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917); Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); labor strikes; Lillian Russell (1860/1-1922); lockouts; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pressed Car Steel Strike of 1909; Pressed Steel Car Company; railroad industry; steel industry; trade unions; William Trautmann (1869-1940) |
| 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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