Morewood massacre
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The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891.
Laborers at Morewood Works, c.1890
Morewood Road in Mount Pleasant as it appeared in 2024
Marker commemorating the Morewood massacre
Names of strikers killed in Morewood labor unrest
Henry Clay Frick
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Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, and later became chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company. Fri
Morewood massacre
…industries. Coke, a fuel derived from coal, was essential for iron smelting, which in turn supported the booming steel industry. Industrialists like Henry Clay Frick capitalized on this demand, establishing extensive coke works and utilizing a large labor force, often composed of Eastern European immigrants who…
Henry Clay Frick
Frick's letter to Carnegie, describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead
Berkman's attempt to assassinate Frick, as illustrated by W. P. Snyder in 1892, originally published in Harper's Weekly.
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