[PRCo] Re: The Great Trolley Strike

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Thanks, Matt, for sending this along.  It's a great synopsis of this dispute
from a source I haven't had occasion to get to yet.

The strike marked the end of through service to Pittsburgh...PRCo crews
refused to accept AV cars operated by non-union men, and that ended that.
But it didn't end the animosity...there was more trouble over the next
couple years, including, I believe (my notes are in the library and I'm not
at the moment), another strike in either 1915 or 1916.  I sort of lean to
the latter, because West Penn went to the newly-constituted Public Service
Commission to outlaw the jitney operators (some of whom were the crewmen),
and the PSC duly complied with cease-and-desist orders.

It's really the only place West Penn had labor troubles.

Ed



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Subject: [PRCo] The Great Trolley Strike


"West Penn Company Discharges Men without Notice."
http://www.akvhs.org/great_trolley_strike.htm