HOMESTEAD STRIKE

in U.S. history, a bitterly fought labor dispute. On June 29, 1892, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut. Henry C. Frick, the company's general manager, determined to break the union. He hired 300 Pinkerton detectives to protect the plant and strikebreakers. After an armed battle between the workers and the detectives on July 6, in which several men were killed or wounded, the governor called out the state militia. The plant opened, nonunion workers stayed on the job, and the strike, which was officially called off on Nov. 20, was broken. The Homestead strike led to a serious weakening of unionism in the steel industry until the 1930s.

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books on: Homestead Strike  - 732 results

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Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead
Book by John Ise; University Of Nebraska Press, 1972
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Kansas--Osborne County, Ise, Henry Christopher--1841-1900, Ise, Rosa Christina Haag--1856-
...resolution that order and discipline there should not be. The new teacher decided to strike hard at the very first sign of insubordination or disorder, strike terror into the hearts of the boys before their rebellion had time to get under way...
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The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons
Book by William Z. Foster; B. W. Huebsch, 1920
Subjects: Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920, United States Steel Corporation
...They started the trouble in Homestead, where the big mills of the...refused, and after a short strike, got a favorable settlement...thus precipitated the great Homestead strike. This famous strike...for the men, not only in Homestead, but also in several other...
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Analysis of the Interchurch World Movement Report on the Steel Strike
Book by Marshall Olds, Jeremiah W. Jenks, Murray T. Quigg; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1923
Subjects: Interchurch World Movement Of North America--Commission Of Inquiry, Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920
...recognize that great strikes and violence frequently...Pennsylvania a great strike is likely to involve...page 11 of the great Homestead steel strike of 1892...speaks of the Homestead strike as being "with guns...flames." The Homestead strike was spoken of in the...flames of former steel strikes. In 1919 they knew...
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Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919
Book by David Brody; Lippincott, 1965
Subjects: Iron And Steel Workers--Labor Unions--United States--History, Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920
strike of 1892. In contract negotiations...the Amalgamated from the Homestead Works, deliberately provoked...production no matter how long the Homestead mill was down. To cap it...determined the course of the Homestead strike. Frick prepared to...
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Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations
Book by Donald L. McMurry; Harvard University Press, 1956
Subjects: Burlington Strike, 1888, Industrial relations--History, Strikes and lockouts--United States
...position it had held before the strike. Grand Chief Arthur had an...devastating results of the strike to the action of the two conventions...this power, he said, the strike could have been settled within...later by such events as the Homestead strike of 1892 and the American...
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journal articles on: Homestead Strike  - 201 results

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Connecting with Our Pioneer Past: Letters from the Homestead
Journal article by Gary Fertig; Social Education, Vol. 69, 2005
Subjects: Diorama--Design and construction, Dioramas--Design and construction, Homesteading--Study and teaching, Social problems--Study and teaching, Social science education
...Pioneer Past: Letters from the Homestead. by Gary Fertig When elementary...through building and designing homestead dioramas. These 26 homesteads became our pioneer community...history of land ordinances, homestead laws, and political arguments...believed that they could strike it rich prospecting for gold...
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Interior Chambers: The Emily Dickinson Homestead
Journal article by Diana Fuss; Differences, Vol. 10, 1998
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...mine -- All Forests -- Stintless Stars -- As much of Noon as I could take Between my finite eyes -- The Motions of the Dipping Birds -- The Mornings Amber Road- For mine -- to look at when I liked -- The News would strike me dead --
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Even Umpires Sometimes Strike Out
Journal article by James B. Dworkin, Paul D. Staudohar; Nine, Vol. 10, 2002
Subjects: Baseball (Professional)--Labor relations, Baseball umpires--Labor relations, Collective bargaining--History, Major League Baseball Players Association--Labor relations, Professional baseball--Labor relations, Strikes--History
Even Umpires Sometimes Strike Out. by James B. Dworkin...setbacks over the years. The Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pullman...the calling of balls and strikes, not the whims of umpires with their own notions of the strike zone. MLB was also concerned...Umpire Ted Hendrys expanded strike zone was described as seeming...Umpire Eric Gregg called as strikes pitches that were eight to...
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The Amesbury-Salisbury Strike and the Social Origins of Political Nativism in Antebellum Massachusetts
Journal article by Mark Voss-Hubbard; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1996
Subjects: Massachusetts--History, Social history--Massachusetts, Strikes--Political aspects
...female, in sympathy strikes. Within two weeks Samuel...Threatened with a massive strike, Langley refused to...The Emergence of Homestead Exemption in the United...Pawtucket Village and the Strike of 1824: The Origins...local support for the strike, published a stem rebuke...Goodman, "Emergence of Homestead Exemption;" James...
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Justice and the Return of Imperialism
Journal article by Dominick Jenkins; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: United States--International economic relations, United States--Social aspects
...the details of the Colorado strike, Debs focused on Homestead. The bones of his account...Paul Krauses The Battle for Homestead) (15) is as follows...domain. Debs transformed the Homestead strike into one such metaphor...
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magazine articles on: Homestead Strike  - 77 results

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In the Footsteps of Lincoln: The Indiana Years - Family Tragedy, Daily Toil on a Primitive Homestead, the Fascination of the Great Ohio River, and the Awakening Elixir of Learning Combined to Forge the Character of Abraham Lincoln as He Grew to Manhood on the Indiana Frontier
Magazine article by Eric P. Olsen; World and I, Vol. 16, April 2001
Subjects: Indiana--History, Lincoln, Abraham--Behavior, Presidents (Government)--Family, Presidents--Family, United States history, 1817-1861, United States history--1815-1861
...Tragedy, Daily Toil on a Primitive Homestead, the Fascination of the Great Ohio...cause. "There is no announcement which strikes the members of the western community...trembles, and shortly after it began to strike the pioneer households. Nancy Lincoln...embraces the property of the Lincoln homestead and preserves the setting of the coming...
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Economic Injustice for Most: From the New Deal to the Raw Deal
Magazine article by Charles R. Morris; Commonweal, Vol. 131, August 13, 2004
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew, Conduct of life, Homestead Strike, 1892, Tax Reform Act of 1986, United States economic conditions--History, United States--Economic policy, United States--History
...the searing events of the 1892 Homestead strike exposed the savage working conditions...starvation wages. (After the strike was broken with much violence...image by giving the borough of Homestead a library.) By 1890, at the...
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Social Conflict and the Politics of Reform: Mayor James D. Phelan and the San Francisco Waterfront Strike of 1901
Magazine article by John Elrick; California History, Vol. 88, Spring 2011
Subjects: International Brotherhood of Teamsters--Political activity, International Brotherhood of Teamsters--Political aspects, Mayors--Political activity, Mayors--Political aspects, Publishing industry--Political activity, Publishing industry--Political aspects, Strikes--Political aspects, Union Labor Party--Political activity, Union Labor Party--Political aspects, University of California Press--Political activity
...firm to violently break the strike of union steelworkers a decade earlier in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Labor had...The City Front Federation strike, judged by historians as...October 1901. Though the strike ended on an ambiguous note...fractured by the conflict. The strikes settlement ultimately increased...
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To Strike a Nation
Magazine article by Patrick J. Buchanan; American Conservative, Vol. 6, December 17, 2007
Subjects: American history, Europe, Labor law, Labor relations, Public safety, Socialism, Strikes
To Strike a Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan "There is no right to strike against the public safety...Gompers during the Boston police strike of 1919. The telegram elicited...America had endured dangerous strikes. When steel-workers at the Carnegie plant at Homestead on the Mon River protested...
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Community: Mutual Aid When Disaster Strikes
Magazine article by Jim Weiss, Mickey Davis; Law & Order, Vol. 53, August 2005
Subjects: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, Florida, Hurricanes, Law enforcement
...Mutual Aid When Disaster Strikes by Jim Weiss , Mickey Davis...after Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead Florida in 1992 as a Category...less densely populated than Homestead and also because of the concentrated...Hurricane Charley was set to strike there, but Charley changed...its plan should a disaster strike the city. They initially...
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newspaper articles on: Homestead Strike  - 38 results

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Learning Lifetime Skills at the Homestead
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 26, 2007
...beachside restaurant at The Homestead resort in Glen Arbor, Mich...beautiful resort. Since 1999 The Homestead has operated the Lifetime...testing your short game against Homesteads tricky nine-hole par...that will tempt game fish to strike. Northern Michigan was one...trout- fishing areas and The Homestead is near several blue-ribbon...
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MASTER COOL; Countdown to the Big Football Finals; Dara Weighs Up His Final Strike
Newspaper article by Colm Keys; The Mirror (London, England), July 19, 1996
...Countdown to the Big Football Finals; Dara Weighs Up His Final Strike. by Colm Keys Dara O Cinneide may come from one of the wildest...But O Se lives in civilisation compared to the O Cinneide homestead in the shadow of Mount Brandon, not far off Ballydavid head...
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As the Clock Strikes Midnight Apparitions of Tortured Souls Appear from Inside the Trees; More of Your Chilling Ghost Stories CHRISTMAS & CRUCIFIXIONS
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), January 14, 2007
As the Clock Strikes Midnight Apparitions of...this plateau, a Celtic homestead once bustled with life...give an idea of what the homestead looked like, but a dried...said that, as the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve...
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Tragedy Strikes at Las Vegas Speedway
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 17, 2011
Subjects: Indianapolis 500 (Automobile race), News agencies, The Associated Press, Wheldon, Dan
Tragedy Strikes at Las Vegas Speedway. Byline: Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- Dan Wheldon...rookie Paul Dana was killed in practice on the morning of race day at Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2006. As word began to spread that his injuries...
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MAKING HISTORY; Miniseries Explores '10 Days' That Shook the United States
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 7, 2006
Subjects: Battle of Antietam, 1862, Filmmakers, Movie directors, Television programs
...include the gold rush of 1848, the Homestead Strike of 1892, the assassination of...Rory Kennedys examination of Homestead, a deadly clash between unionized...scandals are cited as "legacies of Homestead," and narrator Martin Sheen...
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encyclopedia articles on: Homestead Strike  - 8 results

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Homestead Strike
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOMESTEAD STRIKE in U.S. history, a bitterly fought...struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut...called off on Nov. 20, was broken. The Homestead strike led to a serious weakening of...
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Homestead
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...including the commercial center of Homestead. 2 Borough (1990 pop. 4,179...foremost U.S. steel producer, Homestead declined rapidly in the 1980s...relocated overseas. In 1892 the Homestead strike , one of the most bitterly fought...
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Pennsylvania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bloodshed during the fight between mine owners and the radical Molly Maguires and reached a climax in the strike at Homestead (see Homestead strike ) in 1892. The miners, under the leadership of John Mitchell and aided by the intervention of Theodore...
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Frick, Henry Clay
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...workers, and his adamant stand resulted in a pitched battle in the strike (1892) at Homestead, Pa. one of the bitterest strikes in U.S. history (see Homestead strike ). He was largely responsible for the antiunion policy that characterized...
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Connellsville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The attack upon Henry C. Frick by the anarchist Alexander Berkman occurred (1892) in Connellsville during the Homestead strike . A branch of Pennsylvania State Univ. is south of the city. ____________________ Copyright...
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