Women picketing Philadelphia Transportation Company

Women picketing Philadelphia Transportation Company

Women picket Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) for better wages for their husbands.  Between 1946 and 1967, there were a number of biannual protests between the Transport Workers Union and the management of the Philadelphia Transportation Company regarding to the demand for wage increas...

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Collection:Philadelphia Record photograph morgue (#V07)
Date:1946
Folder Number:Folder FF 38.3745
Format: Electronic
Subjects:
Photographs
Copyright:Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/2017
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description Women picket Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) for better wages for their husbands.  Between 1946 and 1967, there were a number of biannual protests between the Transport Workers Union and the management of the Philadelphia Transportation Company regarding to the demand for wage increases.  Employees and the union would demand the company increase their wages citing that PTC was more prosperous than they cared to admit and PTC would always state there was no money to pay for wage increases.  Nevertheless, every time a strike ensued PTC would eventually settle providing significant increases to employees’ wages.    &nbsp
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