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The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was a pivotal event in
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See moreCarnegie Steel made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open-hearth system at Homestead in 1886. It now became possible to make steel suitable for structural beams and for
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See moreThe Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike which marked the modern age of labor relations in the
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See moreFrick locked workers out of the plate mill and one of the open hearth furnaces on the evening of June 28. When no collective bargaining agreement was
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See moreOn July 7, the strike committee sent a telegram to Governor Pattison to attempt to persuade him that law and order had been restored in the town.
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See moreThe Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876. It was a craft union representing skilled iron and steelworkers.
The AA's membership was...
See moreAndrew Carnegie placed industrialist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881. Frick resolved to break the union at Homestead.
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See moreFrick's intent was to open the works with nonunion men on July 6. Knox devised a plan to get the Pinkertons onto the mill property, agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which Frick had contracted to provide security at the plant in April 1892,
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