Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel steel manufacturing concern. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company, and owned extensive real estate holdings in Pittsburgh and throughout the state of Pennsylvania. He later built the historic
In a time when American industrialism was rising, and a shift from isolationism to imperialism occurred within American society. It is in this context that industrialization would grow to impact farmers and industrial workers. Two significant ways that farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age by attempting to unionize and forming political parties to further their interests. One significant way that farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization
On June 21-22 1922 coal miners had a strike near Herrin in southern Illinois erupted in deadly violence. This is known as the Herrin Massacre. Herrin is a city in Williamson County Illinois. The Herrin Massacre was the peak of years of violence in the Illinois coalfields in general and in those of Franklin and Williamson Counties in particular. Violent encounters between armed strikers and strikebreakers had produced fatalities in the central-southern Illinois coalfields in Pana and Virden in 1899
Today on May 1st, 1886 a nationwide event has risen where workers ban together in an organization to fight against their employers for higher wages and better working conditions. Employers like Henry Clay Frick use operating techniques like lockouts in order to try and keep the demanding workers out of their corporations. This causes the workers to go into a spit fire of rage and gather to make an event known as the “Haymarket Riot”. Police get involved in trying to stop the riot but this does not