MinGry03
07-10-06, 07:45 PM
I went down to place called the Waterfront. This is were the old USS mill stood. The big tower in the first two pictures is the old water tower the mill used and the building is the old pump house. Also were the pump house stands, along the bank of the Monongahela River below the Pump House of the Homestead mill of the Carnegie Steel works, just after dawn on July 6, 1892 a battle erupted when locked-out Homestead steelworkers and community supporters broke into the closed and fortified mill ?Fort Frick? and met 300 Pinkerton agents armed with repeating rifles attempting to land at the Pumphouse. When the Pinkertons surrendered in the early evening, seven workers and three ?detectives? lay dead. Nearly all the hired guns were wounded and humiliated in a gauntlet organized by women, children and townspeople.
This event was the culmination of failed contract bargaining between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers led by Hugh O?Donnell and Homestead Burgess John McLuckie, and Carnegie Steel led by Henry Clay Frick while Andrew Carnegie vacationed at his castle in Scotland. At unionized Homestead, workers had high wages tied to productivity, an average ten hour-six day week, a voice in hiring and technology implementation, and organized representation. With the union broken through the intervention of the Pennsylvania militia, the next 45 years brought drastically lower wages, the twelve hour-seven day week, ethnic and racial division, and a denial of civil liberties in both the mill and the town. In 1937, Committee of Industrial Organizations? president John L. Lewis and U.S. Steel president Myron Taylor signed an agreement recognizing the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as the workers? legal representative.
The Battle of Homestead is the most famous event in American labor history and one of its most significant. It marked a watershed in U.S. labor relations and casts a deep shadow to this day. May this site invite reflection and inspire debate over the condition and rights of working people here and around the world.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
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And for Jeff, Because you miss Pittsburgh soooo much, here is a nice sunset around 80 degrees....
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This event was the culmination of failed contract bargaining between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers led by Hugh O?Donnell and Homestead Burgess John McLuckie, and Carnegie Steel led by Henry Clay Frick while Andrew Carnegie vacationed at his castle in Scotland. At unionized Homestead, workers had high wages tied to productivity, an average ten hour-six day week, a voice in hiring and technology implementation, and organized representation. With the union broken through the intervention of the Pennsylvania militia, the next 45 years brought drastically lower wages, the twelve hour-seven day week, ethnic and racial division, and a denial of civil liberties in both the mill and the town. In 1937, Committee of Industrial Organizations? president John L. Lewis and U.S. Steel president Myron Taylor signed an agreement recognizing the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as the workers? legal representative.
The Battle of Homestead is the most famous event in American labor history and one of its most significant. It marked a watershed in U.S. labor relations and casts a deep shadow to this day. May this site invite reflection and inspire debate over the condition and rights of working people here and around the world.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6182/13gg3.jpg
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3164/22ed2.jpg
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3973/32ty.jpg
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9375/43rj1.jpg
And for Jeff, Because you miss Pittsburgh soooo much, here is a nice sunset around 80 degrees....
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/4342/60yw.jpg