Elbert H. Gary

Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids

1919-09-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On September 22, 1919, the American Federation of Labor launched a massive strike against the U.S. steel industry after 98 percent of workers voted to walk out, shutting down half the industry including mills in Pueblo, Chicago, Wheeling, Johnstown, Cleveland, Lackawanna, and Youngstown. The AFL had …

American Federation of Labor United States Steel Corporation Elbert H. Gary Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer J. Edgar Hoover labor-suppression state-surveillance propaganda

Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits

1907-11-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On the morning of Saturday, November 2, 1907, during the Panic of 1907 financial crisis, J.P. Morgan convened a meeting at his library proposing that U.S. Steel—which already controlled 60% of the steel market—purchase stock in the insolvent brokerage firm Moore & Schley, which had borrowed …

Theodore Roosevelt J.P. Morgan Elbert H. Gary Henry Clay Frick U.S. Steel Corporation +2 more antitrust corporate-power financial-crisis progressive-era regulatory-capture