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P.R.T. Report to Show Strike's Cost
The Rapid Transit Company or RTC was a pre-cursor to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company or PRT, which was then a pre-cursor to SEPTA. In 1910, the PRT went on strike, and this article talks about how much that lost productivity has cost in…
Pennsylvania Rapid Transit Strike 1910
This newspaper article features the Kensington business men who played major roles in the Pennsylvania Rapid Transit strike of 1910. A caption for a featured photo reads: "A delegation of prominent merchants of the northeast section of the city went…
Crowd of strikers going to a meeting, Philadelphia
Strikers participating in the Rapid Transit Company's 1910 General Strike heading to a meeting.