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18h 5min, jul 1, 1892 y - Homestead Steel Strike

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|WHO:| Henry Clay Frick, manager of Carnegie Steel plant near Pittsburgh, instigated strike by cutting wages 20% |STRATEGY:| Frick used lockout, private guards, and strikebreakers to defeat worker's walkout after 5 months | EFFECT:| failure of strike set back union movt in steel industry until the New Deal in 1930s

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18h 5min, jul 1, 1892 y
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~ 133 years ago