The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris

Author:Charles R. Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429935029
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2015-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

An 1890s Pennsylvania steel mill town. “Hell with the hatches on,” one traveler called them.

British observers were similarly depressed. Stephen Jeans, secretary of the British Iron Trade Association, who was a great admirer of Carnegie and wrote a penetrating report on turn-of-the-century American steel plants, was surprised at the workers’ living conditions, which left “a good deal to be desired” compared to those of British workmen. Another British visitor of the same period was more graphic:

If Pittsburgh is hell with the lid off, Homestead is hell with the hatches on. Never was [a] place more egregiously misnamed. Here there is nothing but unrelieved gloom and grind. . . . I was not surprised at the English workman who told me that if anyone would give him five dollars a week he would go home and live like a gentleman in—the Black Country. . . . Trade unionism has been put down with an iron hand, dipped in blood. . . , but it is a plant which does not die when it has anything to feed on, and here it has much. . . . The management shows obvious signs of nervousness on the subject, and nervousness is weakness.

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