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Homestead Strike
The workers at the still mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania, were members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, which had good wages and work rules. Andrew Carnegie was the owner, and determined to lower its cost of production by breaking the union, his chairman, Henry Frick, was not happy that Carnegie was breaking the union to earn more money. Since the union's three year contract was coming to an end, the company demanded a wage cut from 325 employees, causing the workers