USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For Carnegie, who had carefully cultivated a reputation as a pro-labor industrialist, his partnership with Frick invited conflict, and there was frequently tension. But Carnegie recognized an able executive. In 1889 he tapped Frick to be chairman of Carnegie Steel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frick did what plenty of 19th-century businessmen did when they were battling unions. He hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which was notorious for such activities as infiltrating its agents into unions and breaking strikes-and which at its height had a larger work force than the entire U.S. Army.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Clay Frick is probably most infamous for his role in the Homestead Strike. In July of 1892 workers at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, went on strike because they wanted to organize, something that Frick adamantly opposed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry Clay Frick, (born December 19, 1849, West Overton, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died December 2, 1919, New York City), U.S. industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist who helped build the world’s largest coke and steel operations.

Detailed explanation-5: -As an extremely wealthy man, Frick acquired a magnificent collection of art over the years, and when he died in 1919 he left his huge New York mansion and his art collection to the city as a museum. He also donated much of his sizeable fortune, estimated at $50 million, to charitable organizations.