Look up the Homestead, PA strike. This was a steel mill town and Carnegie owned the mill. They literally barricaded the town and if you tried to enter they beat the shit out of you. Carnegie sent some barges in with Pinkerton and about a dozen people died from the gun battle. The national government ended up sending the military in to break it up.
sn3kyj3d1 t1_iybcs63 wrote
Reply to Questions For Labor Historians: Resistance In Company Towns? by Ahruzimel
Look up the Homestead, PA strike. This was a steel mill town and Carnegie owned the mill. They literally barricaded the town and if you tried to enter they beat the shit out of you. Carnegie sent some barges in with Pinkerton and about a dozen people died from the gun battle. The national government ended up sending the military in to break it up.