Union Switch and Signal Strike Photo
Album
June 1914
In the 1910's. Workers in East Pittsburgh's "Electric Valley" created
impressive, if short-lived, workers' organizations. In the 1914 Strike
at
Westinghouse and Union Switch and Signal, women workers, often employed as
coil winders, played a leading role, as this remarkable photo album shows
below. In the 1930's, some female coil winders, like Margaret
Darin, were again active, this
time helping bring permanent union organization to the valley.
(Source: UE 91:3, Gift of Charles J. McCollester) Some of the photographs
from this album have been reproduced by Charles J. McCollester in "Turtle
Creek Fights Taylorism: The Westinghouse Strike of 1914," Labor's
Heritage 4:2 (Summer 1992): 4-27.
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