Homestead Strike, Cleveland, Ohio. Two thousand workers at Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills are on strike over the unacceptable working conditions imposed by ruthless manager Henry Clay Frick. Carnegie has traveled to his estates in Scotland to give Frick a free hand, who hires the Pinkertons, a powerful, heavily armed private militia. The clash with the workers results in nine deaths and hundreds of injuries, but also causes a huge uproar across the country and a wave of consequences, from anarchist attacks to an attempted assassination of Frick.
