Inside the Homestead Strike of 1892: Labor’s Bloody Stand
Inside the Homestead Strike of 1892: Labor’s Bloody Stand In the summer of 1892, the steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, erupted into one of the most violent labor conflicts in American history. On July 6, roughly 300 armed Pinkerton agents tried to land from river barges at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead Works. Thousands of locked-out steelworkers…