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
Progress in the Mill--A Quartette of Aristocratic
Non-Unionists--Sickness Breaks Out--More
Arrests--Jack Clifford Suspected of Treachery, but
is Held Without Bail for Murder--167 True Bills
Returned--Supreme Justice Paxson in the Saddle--He
Orders Arrests for Treason and is Generally
Condemned--Snowden Favors the Gallows for
Homesteaders--Judge Agnew on Treason--Paxson
Instructs the Grand Jury and Pronounces the
Homestead men Traitors--Carnegie in Scotland 189-208
CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST BREAK.
More Prosecutions--The Soldiers Withdraw--A Non-Union
Hotel Dynamited--Homestead Figures in Parades and
Gives a Democratic Majority--Slavs Weakening--The
_Local News_ Predicts Defeat--Gompers Again--Sheriff
McCleary is Harassed and Increases His Corps of
Deputies--Lawyer Jones in Trouble--Schwab Succeeds
Potter as Superintendent--Homestead's Last
Riot--Striker Roberts Hints at Defeat--Mechanics and
Laborers Go Back to Work 209-225
CHAPTER XVII. CAPITULATION.
The Last Mass Meeting--Strikers Surrender
Unconditionally--Cost of the Homestead Dispute to
Capital, Labor and the State--Few Old Hands Get Work
and Poverty Stalks Abroad--Noble Service of Relief
Committees--The Coming of Santa Claus--Congressional
Investigations Wind Up Without Accomplishing
anything--A Batch of Useless Reports--The Kearns
Anti-Pinkerton Bill Becomes a Law in Pennsylvania 226-240
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FIRST TRIAL.
Sylvester Critchlow Arraigned--Pinkertons on the
Stand--The Prosecution Makes a Strong Showing--A
Suspicious Carnegie Banquet--Attorneys Erwin and
Argo to the Rescue--An Alibi for the Defense--John
S. Robb Attacks Mr. Erwin--The "Northwestern
Whirlwind's" Magnificent Oration--He Captures the
Court and Confounds the Prosecution--"Not
Guilty"--The Backbone of the Murder Charges Broken 241-260
CHAPTER XIX. WEAVING NEW TOILS.
An Epidemic Investigated--Detectives Charge Poisoning
and Arrests are Made--Gallagher and Davidson Turn
Informers--Dempsey and Beatty are Indicted--Hearings
and Trials--A Tangled Mass of Medical Testimony--Mr.
Brennen's Little Hibernicism--Defendants are
Convicted and Heavy Sentences Imposed--Gallagher
Recants and Then Reconsiders--Clemency Refused by
the Pardon Board 261-279
CHAPTER XX. THE DENOUEMENT.
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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 — John Shaqi
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