Homestead : $b A complete history of the struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel WorkersBurgoyne, Arthur Gordon
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Homestead : $b A complete history of the struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Burgoyne, Arthur Gordon
Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892
Snowden's Sharp Tactics--The Taking of Homestead--Troops
in Possession--Soldiers Repel Advances and the
Fraternal Reception is Declared Off--O'Donnell's
Committee at Headquarters--Suspicion and Resentment
Abroad--The Little Bill Returns--Congressmen Hold an
Investigation--Capital and Labor in Conflict on the
Witness Stand--The Cost of Producing Steel Remains a
Riddle 116-132
CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST ARRESTS.
Bringing in the "Blacksheep"--Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls
and Duquesne Men Come Out--An Alarm in Camp--The
Governor Arrives--The Boycott as a
Persuader--Politics to the Rescue--Murder Charged
and Warrants Issued--McLuckie, O'Donnell and Ross
Surrender and are Released on Bail--General
Snowden's Disheartening Announcement 133-145
CHAPTER XII. THE SHOOTING OF FRICK.
Berkman, a Russian Autonomist, Attempts the Life of the
Carnegie Chairman--Mr. Frick's Bravery--"The
Shooting Will in no Way Affect the Homestead
Strike"--Militiaman Iams Cheers the Assassin and is
Drummed Out of Camp--Public Indignation over the
Iams Affair--Snowden, Hawkins, Streator and Neff
Indicted--Workingmen Prosecute Carnegie Officials
for Murder 146-158
CHAPTER XIII. BERKMAN AND IAMS.
Frick's Assailant Railroaded to the Penitentiary--The
Iams Trial--Hanging by the Thumbs Approved by a
Jury--The Mills Filling Up--Sermons to
Non-Unionists--Strikers Go Through the Plant--The
Relief Fund--Gompers Arrives and Makes an Incendiary
Speech--Pittsburgh and Mahoning Manufacturers
Capitulate--William and Robert Pinkerton on the
Defensive 159-173
CHAPTER XIV. POLITICIANS AT WORK.
A Suppressed Congressional Report--Sympathy Strikes
Prove a Failure--Gompers as a Boycott Wielder--The
Slavs Weaken--Plans of the Republican National
Committee--Smooth Mr. Milholland Enlists Hugh
O'Donnell--Honest John McLuckie Refuses to be
Muzzled--The Milholland Scheme Falls
Through--Outbreaks at Homestead--The Search for
Pinkerton Guns--Mr. Frick Revisits the Mill 174-188
CHAPTER XV. TREASON.
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