Elbert Gary

American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression

1921-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Business leaders including Henry Clay Frick, Judge Elbert Gary, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. launched a coordinated campaign to roll back labor gains by promoting the “open shop” as patriotic while branding union membership as “un-American.” Meeting in Chicago in 1921, …

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U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust

1901-02-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The United States Steel Corporation is incorporated with authorized capitalization of $1.4 billion, becoming the first billion-dollar corporation in history and controlling 60% of the nation’s primary steel capacity. Financier J.P. Morgan orchestrates the massive consolidation, fusing together …

J.P. Morgan Andrew Carnegie Charles Schwab Elbert Gary John D. Rockefeller gilded-age monopoly-power corporate-consolidation financial-power merger-wave