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Reverend H.L. Queen attempting to pass through the picket lines outside the Jones and Laughlin Corporation steel plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1937.
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Steel Worker Biting Picketer During Labor Strike, Aliquippa, Pa.

Credit: Image Donated by Corbis-Bettmann

On May 12, 1937, more than 25,000 workers went out on strike at the Jones and Laughlin Corporation steel plant in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The next day a photographer caught this scene of striking steelworkers preventing Reverend H.L. Queen, a storekeeper at the plant, from crossing the picket lines. In the scuffle Queen suffered a black eye and bit a picket's hand. The strike ended the next day, after J and L management agreed to negotiate with the union if a majority of its employees voted to join the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.

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