A victim of the Homstead Steel Strike of 1892.
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.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
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.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
A victim of the Homstead Steel Strike of 1892.
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.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
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.
Battle of Homestead Foundation - Pennsylvania Labor History Society
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