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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...
Towed stealthily up the Monongahela aboard two barges, they arrived at Home stead at 4 a. m. on July 6. The workers, massed along the river with their women & children, were ready for them. As the first detectives stepped ashore, someone banged a gun. At that the Pinkerton army fired a volley into the crowd and one of the bloodiest battles in U. S. Labor history was on. It lasted until 5 o'clock that afternoon. When it was over three detectives, seven workers lay dead...
...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...
...other side holds that listeners get more from the music if they are not straining to catch every word that is sung. Most translations are inept, a handicap to real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while...
...farmer in Derry, N. B., Robert Frost in 1900 started his career. After five years tilling the soil, he took up teaching at Pinkerton Academy in that town, where he taught English. After a year at the State Normal School teaching Psychology, he went to Amherst College, England, where he was a professor of English, then to the University of Michigan, later to Yale, and now here...