Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead
Three hundred Pinkerton Detective Agency agents attempt to forcibly seize Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead steel mill in Pennsylvania, triggering a 14-hour armed battle with locked-out steelworkers that leaves seven workers and three Pinkertons dead, with dozens more wounded. The violent …
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Pennsylvania National Guard
+1 more
labor-suppression
gilded-age
homestead-strike
private-security
corporate-violence
+1 more
Read more →