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storyThe Day Private Gunmen Invaded a Pittsburgh Steel TownAt Homestead in 1892, a labor dispute became an armed battle after Pinkerton agents arrived by barge to retake the Carnegie Steel works.HistoryHomestead Strike1892
storyThe Strike That Asked Who Really Owned SteelHow twelve hour shifts, seven day schedules, immigrant labor, union organizing, corporate resistance, police power, racial division and America's Red Scare turned Pittsburgh's steel country into the center of a battle over who had the right to speak inside the mills.HistoryGreat Steel Strike1919
storyThe Strike That Turned McKees Rocks Into a BattlefieldIn 1909, immigrant workers at Pressed Steel Car challenged opaque pay practices and factory discipline in a strike that exploded into deadly violence.HistoryMcKees RocksPressed Steel Car