Sitting on Front porch of home in Pittsburgh, Pa., is Frank Studnicki. He has worked 35 years in the open hearth furnace of Jones & Laughlin steel company plant. Studnicki is looking out over the idle plant in Pittsburgh's famed steel valley below. Steel workers went on strike after contract expired.

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Sitting on Front porch of home in Pittsburgh, Pa., is Frank Studnicki. He has worked 35 years in the open hearth furnace of Jones & Laughlin steel company plant. Studnicki is looking out over the idle plant in Pittsburgh's famed steel valley below. Steel workers went on strike after contract expired.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1956]

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CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Labor: Strikes: Steel Workers

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