USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tensions between steel workers and management were the immediate causes of the Homestead Strike of 1892 in southwestern Pennsylvania, but this dramatic and violent labor protest was more the product of industrialization, unionization, and changing ideas of property and employee rights during the Gilded Age.

Detailed explanation-3: -In what would be one of the deadliest labor-management conflicts in the nation’s history, some 12 people were killed when striking workers attacked 300 Pinkerton detectives hired by the plant’s management as security guards.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike that disrupted rail traffic in the country, while the Homestead Strike was a lockout strike of steelworkers at the Homestead Steel Factory.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was a severe miscalculation. Although only 750 of the 3, 800 workers at Homestead belonged to the union, 3, 000 of them met and voted overwhelmingly to strike. Frick responded by building a fence three miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks plant, adding peepholes for rifles and topping it with barbed wire.