HIS125 WK4Labor
Cassandra Rollins
HIS125: Labor Assessment Assignment
Linda Rhoades-Swartz: Instructor
February 1, 2015
Write a 350-word essay in which you do the following:
•Identify what you think to be one of the most significant strikes of the late 1800s or early 1900s.
•Describe what it accomplished and what it failed to accomplish. The Homestead Strike was one of the most famous strikes that happen in the late 1800s. This is an example of the struggle between labor union and business owners. In some cases, as at the Homestead, the struggle turned violent. The Homestead Strike was at the Carnegie Steel Mill and owned by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie thought that the labor union at the Homestead Steel Mill made it harder on the manager to run their business proficiently. Carnegie was out of town at the time of the strike but he knew that it was going to happen so he warned the steel mill top managers. The Labor Union which was called Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was highly upset about the pay drop that was going to happen. Because the price of steel was dropping the pay was going to be reduced. The Union member and most other workers decided to have a meeting and they all decided to go on strike because they felt that they did too much for their pay to drop. When the manager decided to hired armed guards to protect the company from the strikers the whole situation became violent. They were also trying to protect the workers that they hired to replace the strikers. Not long after the armed guards appeared the violent quickly approach; guns battle quickly came between the armed guards and the strikers, ten people were killed (including strikers and guards) and many more were injured. The governor from Pennsylvania decided to send in soldier to prevent the situation from getting any worst. The still replace the strikers with new workers and there was not anything that the strikers can do about it. The strike ended up being a failure and after
HIS125: Labor Assessment Assignment
Linda Rhoades-Swartz: Instructor
February 1, 2015
Write a 350-word essay in which you do the following:
•Identify what you think to be one of the most significant strikes of the late 1800s or early 1900s.
•Describe what it accomplished and what it failed to accomplish. The Homestead Strike was one of the most famous strikes that happen in the late 1800s. This is an example of the struggle between labor union and business owners. In some cases, as at the Homestead, the struggle turned violent. The Homestead Strike was at the Carnegie Steel Mill and owned by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie thought that the labor union at the Homestead Steel Mill made it harder on the manager to run their business proficiently. Carnegie was out of town at the time of the strike but he knew that it was going to happen so he warned the steel mill top managers. The Labor Union which was called Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was highly upset about the pay drop that was going to happen. Because the price of steel was dropping the pay was going to be reduced. The Union member and most other workers decided to have a meeting and they all decided to go on strike because they felt that they did too much for their pay to drop. When the manager decided to hired armed guards to protect the company from the strikers the whole situation became violent. They were also trying to protect the workers that they hired to replace the strikers. Not long after the armed guards appeared the violent quickly approach; guns battle quickly came between the armed guards and the strikers, ten people were killed (including strikers and guards) and many more were injured. The governor from Pennsylvania decided to send in soldier to prevent the situation from getting any worst. The still replace the strikers with new workers and there was not anything that the strikers can do about it. The strike ended up being a failure and after