Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July morning in 1892, a tug chugged up the Monongahela, towing two barges with a deadly cargo: 300 pistols, 250 Winchester rifles and a hired army of 316 Pinkerton men. Where Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mill sprawled along the south bank of the river, the barges beached. That was enemy territory, defended by a cannon, spiked clubs, small arms, and a force of strikers 10,000 strong. Hostilities began at once. One fusillade from the barges dropped 30 defenders, but not one Pinkerton got ashore. Homestead's striking mill hands had won the opening skirmish of a labor...
...Interest in Justice. Author Wolff's balanced but pedestrian account ranks the Homestead strike as one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of U.S. labor-management relations. Neither side produced a real hero, but both sides produced plenty of villains. The strikers turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...
...three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double-track slope; Strudel Run at Braddock Heights, Md., with four slopes and a T-bar lift. The more avid drive four hours to the Homestead Ski Area at Hot Springs, Va., or Deep Creek Ski Area near Oakland...
...county's householders duck out of taxes by virtue of low appraisals of the market value of their properties. When these appraisals are figured at the official assessment rate of 42% , they mostly fall below $5,000, which is then forgiven under Florida's ancient "homestead exemption." Every attempt by worried parents to elect an assessor who would raise appraisals has met defeat. Turning from the polls to the courtroom, a band of determined Jacksonville citizens this week begins testifying in a suit that seeks to force the assessment of all property at fully 100% of market value...