Indianapolis Street Railway Strike of 1913
NE corner Harding and West Washington (Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1070 offices)
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The streetcar men's union - today the Amalgamated Transit Union - struck against the Indianapolis Railway Company to gain union recognition and improved wages and working conditions. Within a few hours of the strike being called, all streetcar employees stopped their work and the city's entire street railway system - and the city - was paralyzed. The strike turned violent as the IRC sought to run the streetcars using scab labor. A key incident in the strike took place at Union Station, where a "mutiny" of members of the police force took place. In solidarity with union and the strike, policemen refused to ride in the same car as the scabs they were assigned to protect.
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Associated Employers of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Reminiscences, April 21, 1924
Encyclopedia of Indianapolis pg. 106-107
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