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Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike (4:45)

The famed Industrialist breaks the back of organized workers.

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The Homestead strike pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.

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