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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 ...
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 ...
A Documentary History of Migratory Farm Labor in California: The California Cotton Pickers Strike, 1933 (Report). Oakland, Calif.: Federal Writers' Project. Bronfenbrenner, Kate (1990). "California Farmworkers' Strikes of 1933". In Filippelli, Ronald L. (ed.). Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing.
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.
The beginning of the California Gold Rush also a time where people were moving from east to west September 17, 1862 The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War: July 6, 1892 The Homestead Strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania: September 6, 1901 The assassination of President William McKinley: July 21, 1925
He organized farmworkers to strike in California. Larry Itliong, arriving for a union meeting in the 1960s. Itliong among other Filipino-American leaders organized the 1965 Delano Grape Strike.
Photo of Hughey O'Donnell as he appeared around the time of the Homestead Strike. Hugh O'Donnell (c. 1869–19??) was an American steel mill worker and labor leader. He is best remembered as the chairman of the Homestead Strike Advisory Committee during the Homestead Steel Strike of July 1892.
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 416,154 Lattimer massacre; 1898 263,219 1899 431,889 Weight ...