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The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. [5] The governor responded by sending in the National Guard to protect ...
Strike 2 At least two tailors died as police confronted a street mob of about 300 strikers, mostly German, with clubs. [2] These deaths stand as the "first recorded strike fatalities in U.S. history". [3] July 7, 1851 Portage, New York: Railroad Strike 2 Two striking workers of the New York and Erie Railroad were shot and killed by police officers.
Homestead Strike: [20] Pinkerton Guards, trying to pave the way for the introduction of strikebreakers, opened fire on striking Carnegie mill steel-workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In the ensuing battle, three Pinkertons surrendered and were set upon and beaten by a mob of townspeople, most of them women.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Photo of Hughey O'Donnell as he appeared around the time of the Homestead Strike. Hugh O'Donnell (c. 1869–19??) was an American steel mill worker and labor leader. He is best remembered as the chairman of the Homestead Strike Advisory Committee during the Homestead Steel Strike of July 1892.
The WNBA also went on strike, as did several Major League Soccer teams and Major League Baseball teams. The General Trades Union didn’t last long, but it represents one of the earlier efforts to ...
See which items experts say could be harder to find on Carolina shelves, or cost more, after Hurricane Helene and during dockworker strike. Bananas, beer and coffee could be supply chain ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...