WI the Homestead Strike is negotiated?

The Vulture

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Suppose by some amazing unspecified happenstance, Henry Frick is moved to negotiate with the striking steelworkers and at least sit down and talk with the union? What precedent would this set for union workers?
 

maverick

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A good one, hopefully.

The idea of negotiating with the workers rather than calling for the Pinkerton or the Militia to crush them would be revolutionary indeed at the time, so it might take time.
 

maverick

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Hmmm...if there's no attempt to assassinate Frick on July 23, then the Strike would not lose popular support and maybe a negotiation is made necessary as Frick realizes that the Strike can't be crushed with violence?
 

The Vulture

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Hmmm...if there's no attempt to assassinate Frick on July 23, then the Strike would not lose popular support and maybe a negotiation is made necessary as Frick realizes that the Strike can't be crushed with violence?

Good of a POD as any, I suppose.

Just getting Frick to sit down at the same table with union leaders would be a victory, really.
 
Frick was the problem and his appoinment was a disaster it is concievable that the unions might have accepted a reduction in conditions but Frick was out to break the union. The use of Pinkerton agents as strike breakers and agent provocateur was an outrage. The local sherrif was on the side of the strikers as was the mayor.

The consequences of a negotiated settlement would have been that Carnegie's reputation would have been preserved and he would have still been regarded as a friend of Labor. Librarians could accept Carnegie money with a clear conscience rather than accepting funding that had been obtained through exploitation.
 
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