Federal Laboratories

One FedLabs representative fired a tear gas grenade during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike that caused the death of a striker due to skull fracture.

Auerbach notes, however, that despite FedLabs stated opposition to "communist" strikers, the firm continued to sell tear gas to the Soviet Union even during 1933.

[2] During World War II, the company's factory near Saltsburg, PA along Tunnelton Road employed women to replace drafted male workers.

[7] A month later it requested security assistance from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries and declared a three-month state of emergency.

[16] According to Physicians for Human Rights, 34 of these deaths were related to government usage of tear gas originally manufactured by U.S.-based Federal Laboratories.

Israeli border guard with a Federal M201-Z riot gas gun
John W. Young (right), president of Federal Laboratories, confers with his secretary during testimony before the La Follette Civil Rights Committee of the United States Senate (March 1937)