{"id":2574,"date":"2012-09-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2014-12-23T06:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:15:57","slug":"july-1-1956-the-day-600-000-steelworkers-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/09\/03\/july-1-1956-the-day-600-000-steelworkers-went\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Press reporter Mary O\u2019Hara covers steelworkers’ struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 1, 1956:<\/em> \u00a0<\/strong>The day 600,000 steelworkers went on strike nationwide, Pittsburgh Press reporter Mary O\u2019Hara did what any good journalist would do: She went into the region\u2019s steel towns to talk to those most affected. She found Mary Ann Palmer and her children living \u201cjust a stone\u2019s throw away\u201d from a mill, which is unidentified in the story. Mrs. Palmer told the Press she\u2019d been dreaming of moving her family out of its four-bedroom house to \u201ca place where you can hear yourself think.\u201d Her children were identified as Sonny, Dimmie and Denise. Steelworkers won substantial pay increases during the month-long strike<\/p>\n

Ms. O\u2019Hara had a distinguished 40-year career at the Press, as a society editor and then a political columnist. She was the first woman to sit on the newspaper\u2019s editorial board. She retired in 1984 and died in 2007 at age 93.<\/p>\n

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Ms. O\u2019Hara had a distinguished 40-year career at the Press, as a society editor and then a political columnist. <\/p>\n

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