To refresh your memory, Andrew Carnegie acquires a new steel mill in Homestead, PA. The original owners permitted their workers to unionize (perhaps why it was not successful enough to prevent a Carnegie buyout, but that is merely speculation). Carnegie, however, would not tolerate a union. He, along with his partner Frick, send workers home until they agree to be non-union and accept a lesser wage. Carnegie then brings in some "scabs" to work in his mill at the new wage and Frick hires the Pinkerton Security Company to protect the workers. This eventually winds up being a short, yet deadly war between business owners/managers (here, Carnegie and Frick) and laborers.
The question, however, remains; Who was in the right?
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