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What if, through some fit of benevolence, Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie decide to negotiate with the Homestead strikers and Knights of Labor? Not so much acquiesce to their demands, mind you, just merely sit down and try to reach some sort of agreement. As opposed to the reaction of OTL: locking the doors, hiring scabs, and calling out the Pinkertons.

What might have been the ramifications for labor unions and class struggle in America, in particular Eugene Debs and the Socialists?
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