Plastics, Inc. Headquarters, 224 Ryan Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota (Razed)

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Plastics, Inc.
2001, Photo shows current site.
Address:	224 Ryan Avenue
City/locality- State/province	Saint Paul, Minnesota
County- State/province:	Ramsey County, Minnesota
State/province:	Minnesota
Country:	United States
Year razed:	Unknown
Historic Function:	Business

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Plastics, Inc. Headquarters, 224 Ryan Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota (Razed)
(44.941409,-93.101965)

Site of a 1979 strike that turned bloody. Machinists Lodge 459 member Don Pilla, among a group of workers picketing the company's non-union plant in Coon Rapids, was killed after a truck plowed through the picketline. His death led to landmark state legislation requiring all vehicles to stop before attempting to pass through a picketline. Pilla has been memorialized through an annual scholarship offered by the Minnesota AFL-CIO.

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