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Frick showed no interest in justice or the strikers' proposals. He simply put in a call to the Piftkerton Agency, already notorious for its ability to muster indefinite numbers of strikebreaking mercenaries who were delighted to do battle for $5 a day. Frick swore to hold fast, "if it takes all summer and all winter, and all next summer and the next winter. I will never recognize the union, never, never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War for Homestead | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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