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The theory that employees and managers could be equal was terminated. A union in the steel industry didn't exist for another 40 years while the private army known as the Pinkertons was outlawed some time later.
Primary cause of the strike were the technological improved system of material handling installed by the Carnegie Steel Company in 1886. That led to speed up the process of toolmaking by means of overhead cranes, charging machines, hoists and buggies, which allowed larger quantities of the products were being produced. Carnegie Steel was therefore managing to expand the factories and
hire more and more labor force mainly formed of less skilled workers. That way of hiring was not accepted by the more skilled senior workers, who reacted with a strike aimed to protect their professional and seniority position.
The Homestead Strike was a labor protest on June 30, 1892. The dispute took place between Homestead Steel Works and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
The factory was mechanizing, which cost workers their jobs.
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Private security was hired to protect strikebreakers during the 1892 Homestead strike.
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The Homestead Strike was when, in 1892, Andrew Carnegie reduced wages at his steel mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania and the union workers refused to accept the cut. The company locked out the union workers and hired nonunion labor and 300 armed guards. The locked out workers gathered weapons and , on July 6, a battle broke out killing ten people. After that, the state militia began to escort the nonunion workers to the mills and after four months, the strike collapsed, breaking
Private security was hired to protect strikebreakers during the 1892 Homestead strike.
The strike ended with Frick (plant GM) hiring replacement workers for the mill under the protection of the Pennsylvania State Militia. Once he successfully got the plant running again, he simply waited out the strikers, until they began ignoring the strike and returning to work under Frick's conditions (the conditions that he had originally proposed, which had led to the strike). Within two months, nearly all of the striking workers that management wanted back had returned to work, the rest being permanently replaced.