The Homestead Strike: 11 Dead, 30 Wounded Amidst the Homestead Lockout!
Attention! At the expiration of the steel and iron worker's 3-year contract, Andrew Carnegie wanted the men to take reduction of wages.Before the workers could declare strike, they were locked out. Carnegie, not wanting to take responsibilty for the pay drop, then turned power into the hands of Henry C Frick, a brutal union-hater. He locked the workers out of his steel mill, and a brawl is expected to break out! Frick just put up a wire fence, 3 miles long, even including holes for rifles. He then called for 300 pinkertons, gunned and ready. Wow that must have been expensive! Right now, I mean right now, there is a huge fight breaking out between the workers and the Pinkertons and so far, 5 workers have been killed and 1 Pinkerton has hit the floor.
Word has it that the state militia is on their way and something brutal is about to happen. Stay tuned to Homestead Newspaper for the latest on your Homestead strike.
