The strike at Philadelphia's two-block-long General Electric Co. plant had been conducted much like the strikes at G.E. plants in Oakland, Calif.; Pittsfield, Mass.; Bridgeport, Conn. There had been quiet, orderly picketing. In Philadelphia there had not been a single arrest. G.E.'s 5,000 Philadelphia strikers knew as well as their leaders that the strike was not going to be settled there but in New York City, at United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers Union headquarters.
The Philadelphia plant had made-no effort to get some 1,000 nonunion, nonstriking employes through the picket lines....
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