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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…
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…
Crowd of strikers going to a meeting, Philadelphia
Strikers participating in the Rapid Transit Company's 1910 General Strike heading to a meeting.