Homestead Strike

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  • Carnegie Bros. & Co. purchase the Homestead Steel Mill

    Carnegie Bros. & Co. purchase the Homestead Steel Mill

    The Homestead Steel Works was purchased by Carnegie Bros. & Co. from Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel. It was sold because Bessemer Steel could not settle with the unions, causing them to pullout.

  • Open Hearth Shop built

  • Haymarket Affair

    Police threated a worker's rally and a bomb killed many

  • 119 inch plate mill completed

  • Carnegie Steel empliments Union Breaking Plan

  • Carnegie Steel make record profit $4.5 Million

  • Negotiations Begin between Frick and AA

  • Frick conters the AA offer and set a deadline

  • Construction of "Fort Frick" begins

  • Plate mill workers Locked out

  • Deadline to agree to Fricks terms

  • Rest of Plant Locked out

  • Homestead Strike Begins

  • AA Colective Bargieng set to end

  • Strike at Pittsburg, Duquesne, Union Mills and Beaver Falls in support of Homestead

  • Frick requests help from sherif

  • Pinkertons Arrive

  • State Miltia Arrive

  • Scabs arrive

  • 15 workers try to get in to plant

  • Homestead placed under martial law

  • Strike leaders charged with conspiracy, riot and murder

  • Attempted Assationation of Frick

  • Strike ends at Union Mills

  • Plant working at full capacity without union

  • State Militia Leave

  • Strike ends at Homestead

  • Strike ends at Beaver Falls

  • Period: to

    Carnegie Steel remains Union Free

  • Homestead Orginizing Drive crushed

  • Small Homestead AA lodge crushed by Frick