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LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command at the time, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months of hostilities 35 were killed, 400 injured. When the strike was finally broken, men who were not fired went back to worse conditions and slashed...
LOCKOUT by Leon Wolff. 297 pages. Harper...
...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...
...Professor of Education and Mathematics; Leonard K. Nash, Professor of Chemistry; Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy; George Wald, professor of Biology; Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing; Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; and Robert Lee Wolff, professor of History...
...what Gen. Ed. courses did he take? Robert Lee Wolff '36 Professor of History...