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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 that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. [5] The governor responded by sending in the National Guard to protect ...
6 July 1892 (United States) Homestead Strike: [20] Pinkerton Guards, trying to pave the way for the introduction of strikebreakers, opened fire on striking Carnegie mill steel-workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In the ensuing battle, three Pinkertons surrendered and were set upon and beaten by a mob of townspeople, most of them women.
Pinkertons and militia at Homestead, 1892 – One of the first union busting agencies was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which came to public attention as the result of a shooting war that broke out between strikers and three hundred Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike of 1892. When the Pinkerton agents were withdrawn, state ...
Cotton pickers' strike of 1891; Coal Creek War; 1892 238,685 Homestead strike; Coeur d'Alene labor strike; Buffalo switchmen's strike; 1893 287,756 1894 690,044 Pullman Strike; Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894; Great Northern Railway strike; Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894; 1895 407,188 1896 248,838 Leadville miners' strike; 1897 ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Many of these protests and strikes have changed America.
The Homestead strike was a major turning point for the union. Andrew Carnegie placed strong anti-unionist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881. [ 1 ] With the union's contract due to expire on June 30, 1892, Frick demanded a 22 percent wage decrease, then unilaterally announced that if an agreement was not reached, he ...
Pages in category "1892 labor disputes and strikes" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Homestead strike; L. Łódź rebellion; N.