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...meantime not a single organizer was sent into the steel industry." If Leader Lewis had chosen to round out his indictment of the Federation leadership's failure to organize U. S. steel workers, he could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel's craftsmen among no less than...
...Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
Refusing to negotiate, Steelman Frick tossed up a board & barbed-wire fence around the plant, locked his workers out. When the men surrounded "Fort Frick," barring entrance to scabs, Frick sent to New York for 300 Pinkerton detectives...
...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
...protege of Willie Frick, Arena Skating Master, outdistanced his competitors by his jumping and smooth transition of blade edges. It was this, combined with his nice carriage and ice personality which won over the judges in his behalf...