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Notice to All Employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company. The Army Can Wait No Longer. Letterpress poster, 13x17 inches sight size; creases where formerly folded; matted. Philadelphia, 1944 with--Attention Citizens! Small letterpress circular, 8x5 inches; quite toned; bottom left corner crudely repaired with cellotape. Philadelphia, 1944 In 1944 some 200 white transportation workers staged a wildcat strike in protest against working with African-American conductors that were to be employed by the PTC. The city and the port were paralyzed. Philadelphia's NAACP and Urban League were instrumental in taking the fight to a national level. President Roosevelt finally stepped in and put an end to the strike in the name of national security.
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