United States 1901

Synopsis

After the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW, or the Amalgamated Association) strike was defeated in the aftermath of the Battle of Homestead (the gun battle between members of the Amalgamated Association and Pinkerton agents during the 1892 strike at the Carnegie Mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania), the union still held onto a precarious position in the iron and steel industry. This limited position was itself practically eliminated by the ill-conceived strike in 1901, when after a three-month strike the union was defeated by United States Steel and forced to withdraw from most of the mills owned by the steel trust.

Timeline

• 1881: U.S. President James A. Garfield is assassinated in a Washington, D.C., railway station by Charles J. Guiteau.
• 1886: Bombing at Haymarket Square, Chicago, kills seven policemen and injures numerous others...