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[email protected]. BUFFALO LAW REVIEW Volume 43 Winter 1995 Number 3 Aliquippa: The Company Town and Contested Power in the Construction of Law KENNETH CASEBEERt Little Siberia they called it and with good reason. The A.F. of L. or- ganizers were not even permitted to enter Aliquippa (then called Wood- lawn) during the great steel strike of 1919. Friends or relatives of its inhabi- tants were not allowed to stop for an unauthorized visit. Roads were barred and every stranger alighting from the train was questioned, and if he could t Prof. of Law and Scholar in Residence, University of Miami School of Law. I have benefited from suggestions by Martha Mahoney, William Forbath, Jim