Homestead strike, known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1,1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6,1892.
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The Homestead strike union grew belligerent, and relationships between workers and managers became tense.
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Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike which marked the modern age of labor relations in the United States.
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Homestead strike condemned the use of strikebreakers and told associates that no steel mill was worth a single drop of blood.
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Homestead strike drafted a notice withdrawing recognition of the union.
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The Knights of Labor, which had organized the mechanics and transportation workers at Homestead strike, agreed to walk out alongside the skilled workers of the AA.
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Homestead strike knew that the more chaotic the situation became, the more likely it was that Governor Robert E Pattison would call out the state militia.
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Homestead strike demanded that each Pinkerton be charged with murder, forced to turn over his arms and then be removed from the town.
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Homestead strike had been elected with the backing of a Carnegie-supported political machine, and he could no longer refuse to protect Carnegie interests.
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Homestead strike quickly built bunk houses, dining halls and kitchens on the mill grounds to accommodate the strikebreakers.
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Reid wrote to Frick, warning him that the Homestead strike was hurting the Republican ticket and pleading with him to reopen talks.
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Homestead strike came in from New York, gained entrance to Frick's office, then shot and stabbed the executive.
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Homestead strike broke the AA as a force in the American labor movement.
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In May 1899, three hundred Homestead strike workers formed an AA lodge, but Frick ordered the Homestead strike works shut down and the unionization effort collapsed.
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Two sites were each designated with a Pennsylvania state historical marker: the site where Pinkerton attempted to land, and the two adjoining cemeteries of St Mary's and Homestead strike where are buried the remains of six of the seven Carnegie Steel Company workers that were killed.
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