CH 17 Homestead Strike

SEAN DAVIS

CH 17: THE HOMESTEAD STRIKE

The Homestead Strike occurred on July 6th 1892, in which a violent dispute broke out between the Carnegie Steel Company and their workers over a wage cut. The strike ended November 21st, 1892, lasting a total of 20 weeks which cost a score of lives and millions of dollars. Carnegie gave his operations manager in the Homestead steel mill a "go ahead" to break the union before their current contract expired, The operations manager cut workers' wages and changing their working conditions (locked workers out and had a barbed-wire fence built around the plant). In retaliation, the workers took control over the steel mill, the Homestead operations manager then used Gov. Robert Emory Pattison to send in 8,500 National Guard soldiers. In 3 days, they turned the plant operational again with replacement workers. The strike was led by AFL's founder Samuel Gompers, the workers blamed him for their lost.

Article Citation (MLA)

“Pittsburg Dispatch. (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, November 21, 1892, Image 1.” News about Chronicling America RSS, Rook, O'Neil & Co., chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-11-21/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1800&index=2&rows=20&words=Homestead+HOMESTEAD+STRIKE+Strike+strike&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1900&proxtext=Homestead+Strike&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1.