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Andrew Carnegie runs the largest steel mills in the world; one in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Steel has become the most valuable commodity in an industrial age of tall buildings, bridges, and railroads. The U.S. economy is dependent on steel manufacturing.
Carnegie has mostly hired recent immigrants from Ireland and elsewhere, who were desperately poor and disadvantaged. Their pay and working conditions are pathetic.
As a result of the mistreatment they receive as workers, they have decided to unionize and to strike. As a result of their protests, production at the Steel mill has come to a stop. They have blocked the mill so that no other workers can take their jobs.
DECISION: You are Henry Frick, the executive in charge of Carnegie’s Mill at Homestead. Carnegie has told you to do whatever you think is best to keep the mill going. The operations of the steel mill are essential for your profit, for the U.S. economy as well as for developing the infrastructure of the nation. What do you do about the workers shutting down the mill?
Watch this video to set the scene:
Click here to find out what Frick did.
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