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Tensions escalate in a wage dispute between Carnegie Steel and unionized workers in the gritty mill town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, during the spring of 1892. When the company's contract with the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers expires at the end of June, Carnegie's partner, H.C.Frick, locks out workers at the mill. This move to break the union sets the stage for a confrontation that makes headlines around the world. The story of the 1892 Homestead Strike is told primarily from the points of view of two characters living in Homestead. Disowned by his minister father, university student Emlyn Phillips has forsaken the bleak coalfields of South Wales to make a fresh start. Aided by his brother-in-law, Gwyn Jones, Emlyn finds work as a laborer at Open Hearth #2 in the Homestead Works. As Emlyn struggles to find a niche in the New World, he must wrestle with the demons that drove him from the Old. Homestead doctor William Oesterling tries to negotiate the conflicts between his daughters: Sarah, an elementary school teacher, and Carrie, the wife of an attorney for H.C. Frick of Carnegie Steel. These characters, their families, and all the residents of Homestead are forever transformed by a defining moment in American history: the battle between workers and company-hired Pinkertons on July 6, 1892.
- Sales Rank: #2638712 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-11
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 520 pages
About the Author
Trilby Busch was born and raised in the Steel Valley of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Her paternal great-grandfather was killed in the Homestead Works in the immediate aftermath of the 1892 strike. A longtime resident of Minneapolis, she is retired from teaching college composition and literature. She has published many feature articles and op-ed pieces on historic preservation and folklore.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Strikers Win a Battle, and Lose the War
By C. Anne
My family is from Homestead. Homestead, PA grows up from the banks of the Monongahela river just outside of Pittsburgh. I say grows up, because that part of Pennsylvania is all hills and rivers, like some unnamed American god caught the land under a door like a rug and then shoved. It's steep in a way a prairie-bred person such as myself is in awe of, the caste stratifications of the city starting low (in both senses of the word) on the river, where the mills were, and then rising to the gentry on the top of hill; the American class pyramid made manifest.
In 1892, which was near the beginning of a long recession we've mostly forgotten about (for some reason, even though it has a ton of commonalities with the economic crisis we are living in now), Carnegie and Frick attempted to slash wages for the workers at the Homestead steelworks, as well as making a bold attack on collective bargaining. (I hate to say this, but I've forgotten the name of Carnegie's company then. It became US Steel, the entity that ran the mills when I was a kid, after J.P. Morgan bought out Carnegie sometime later. Anyway.) The workers were locked out; they in turn circled the plant, physically repelling any attempt by the company to bring in scabs. This situation came to blows at the Battle of Homestead between Pinkerton militia and strikers, a battle the strikers won. And then they lost the war, and lost it bad.
This truncated history is pretty much what I knew about the strike, other than a lot of emotionally hot memories about what my Grandpa and other family thought about this, the fact that I am descended from the scabs that broke the union (and the town in some ways), the sort of itchy sense of survivor's guilt that hangs over any conversation that takes place in Homestead about the strike. (Still. Now. Even though I bet the memories are fading.) If there is a villain in this history, it is Henry C. Frick, Carnegie's whip arm and an all-around sumbitch. My mother and sister, with my grandfather, once visited Frick's house (now a museum) and when they got to the end of the tour, the docent incorrectly identified the date of the strike as 1893. My grandfather corrected. The docent stood his ground until my grandfather said, "We're from Homestead." Everyone took a step back, fearful they were going to erupt into violence. They didn't; they are classy.
This book follows two people through this history, Emlyn, a new immigrant from Wales who has come to stay with his sister and brother-in-law (a steelworker), and a town doctor who was a doc during the Civil War. The Welsh at this point in history were the top of the industrial heap, in terms of immigrant workers. They tended to know English, and Wales was also heavily industrialized (pun intended), so they often had the skills from all the coal mining and stuff that were at a premium in the industrial world. Emlyn is on the run from his hardcore Congregational minister father after a crisis of faith that left him wondering whether he could become a minister himself.
Emlyn's first experiences in the New World are pretty funny/tragic, this soft seminary student getting used to the hard drinking, hard living, and hard working of life in Homestead. (The Congregationalists eschewed both drinking and dancing, and I really liked how this was treated seriously in the book, not like a joke or a mistake. The 18th Amendment banning alcohol came about precisely because of how the drink destroyed so many lives.) It's a slow beginning, moving through this town, meeting the doctor's two grown daughters that are at each other's throats over politics , various workers at the mill, the minister of the church, the town bully.
At about mid-book, the strike and battle take place, and that was some rousing stuff to read, really physical and compelling. (And here is a personal aside: my grandmother died a few years ago, and we took her ashes and the ashes of my grandfather, and scattered them together on the banks of the Monongahela River, under the railroad trestle, by the Pump House which is one of the few buildings still standing from the mills. The mills were torn down and replaced with a mall. From the roof of that Pump House, the strikers shot at the Pinkertons coming up the river pulled by a tug, and were shot at in return. I didn't know that when I laid their ashes on that flowered ground, and I'm weeping a little about it now. The Pump House is now managed by the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.) After reading about the bloody battle I was like, what is going to happen in the next 200 pages? Aren't we done? Oh, holy hannah, no. I had never understood how exactly the strike was broken, and what happened to Homestead, what left that place in so much such shock that I can still feel it over 100 years later, several generations removed. The next 200 pages detail that, in a long, slow end of the world. Gah.
There are two other perspectives in the book: a German immigrant family, and a Pinkerton soldier who is present on the barges during the battle, and in the long, horrible gauntlet that takes place afterwords. These perspectives serve to show how really no one profited in the conflict but the company, not even those acting on the company's behalf. The violence on all sides is devastating to the social fabric. There are no easy victors or villains. An illuminating vision of one of the most important conflicts in labor history.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent
By Linda Weldon
I shared this with my 90 year old Mother who finished it in less than day. Now, all her neighbors have created a "waiting list" to read next. Well-written, moving and thought provoking.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A great story
By Franklin Reader
This is a great story with well-developed characters who lived, loved and struggled to survive during the early years of America. The story is made more real as it is enveloped in actual history. I found the setting especially fascinating as Homestead, Pa. was not in my history books, but a rich history is recorded through this book. Read this book for entertainment and as a extra bonus get a little education.
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