jun 30, 1892 - The Homestead Strike

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Despite the violence and rising public anger, workers continued to strike. The writer Hamlin Garland described conditions at the
Carnegie Steel Company’s Homestead plant in Pennsylvania.The steelworkers finally called a strike on June 29, 1892, after the company
president, Henry Clay Frick, announced his plan to cut wages. Frick hired armed guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to protect the plant so that he could
hire scabs, or strikebreakers, to keep it operating. In a pitched battle that left at
least three detectives and nine workers dead, the steelworkers forced out the
Pinkertons and kept the plant closed until the Pennsylvania National Guard
arrived on July 12. The strike continued until November, but by then the union
had lost much of its support and gave in to the company. It would take 45 years
for steelworkers to mobilize once again.

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