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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 ...
Homestead strike: 1892 Homestead, Pennsylvania: 6,550 2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike [102] 2015 California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington +6,000 [103] Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937: 1936–37 New York City +6,000 [104] US Maritime Strike of 1921: 1921 nationwide +6,000 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers ...
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 When the Pinkerton agents were withdrawn, state ...
Union leaders made their headquarters on the third floor of the Bost Building in Homestead, now the site of a labor history museum. At 10:30 pm on July 5, 1892, some 300 employees of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency arrived by rail at Bellevue, about five miles south of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. [5]
The largest health care strike in US history is now in its third, and final, day. The temporary work stoppage will end at 6 am Pacific Time on Saturday morning, concluding a massive labor effort ...
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 ...
Two waves of immigration from Europe created most of the Jewish communities seen in Ohio today, Reid said. One in the mid-1800s and another from 1881 to 1924. ... Reid has documented the Jewish ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ordered that U.S. and Ohio flags on public buildings and grounds be flown at half-staff until midnight for the holiday, which honors the 2,400 Americans who died in the Dec ...