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Frick and union
Frick resolved to break the union at Homestead.
He also drafted a notice ( which Frick never released ) withdrawing recognition of the union.
With the collective bargaining agreement due to expire on June 30, 1892, Frick and the leaders of the local AA union entered into negotiations in February.
Carnegie encouraged Frick to use the negotiations to break the union: "... the Firm has decided that the minority must give way to the majority.
Then Frick offered a slightly better wage scale and advised the Superintendent to tell the workers, " We do not care whether a man belongs to a union or not, nor do we wish to interfere.
When no collective bargaining agreement was reached on June 29, Frick locked the union out of the rest of the plant.
Newspapers across the country defended the union workers, and Berkman and Goldman decided to assassinate Frick.

Frick and Homestead
According to Berkman, "... with the elimination of Frick, responsibility for Homestead conditions would rest with Carnegie.
Over the course of twenty years, Carnegie ’ s steel properties grew to include the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, the Lucy Furnace Works, the Union Iron Mills, the Homestead Works, the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines among many other industry related assets.
The most famous example of this was the Homestead Strike of 1892, when industrialist Henry Clay Frick hired a large contingent of Pinkerton men to regain possession of Andrew Carnegie's steel mill during a lock-out at Homestead, Pennsylvania.
When Henry Clay Frick, manager for Andrew Carnegie, owner of the local Homestead Steel Works, announced in the spring of 1892 that skilled workers would receive a reduction in wages, the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers refused to sign a new contract.
Industrialist Henry Clay Frick sent private security agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike at a Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill.
Weihe wanted to prevent further trouble at Homestead, so he pleaded to Frick that he would confer with representatives of the Amalgamated to return to Homestead and stop the riot.
National attention became riveted on Homestead when, on July 23, Alexander Berkman, a New York anarchist with no connection to steel or to organized labor, plotted with his lover Emma Goldman to assassinate Frick.
An organizing drive at the Homestead plant in 1896 was crushed by Frick.
In May 1899, 300 Homestead workers actually formed an AA lodge, but Frick ordered the Homestead works shut down and the unionization effort collapsed.
The presence of such well-known Anarchists as Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the victims of the outrageous Haymarket trial, Emma Goldman, common-law wife of Berkman, who shot Manager Frick at the time of the Homestead strike, and others, all enlisted under the colonization wing, the members of which were now using the phrases of the Anarchists at sneering at political action, showed that a parting of the ways must come.
* July 23, 1892 – Alexander Berkman tries to kill American industrialist Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of Pinkerton detectives to break up the Homestead Strike, resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers.
Frick and Carnegie's partnership was strained over actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, called by the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union.
One of the most notorious incidents of violence against management occurred in 1892 during the Homestead Strike — one of the most violent industrial disputes in American history — when Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and manager of the mill where the strike occurred.
... Henry Clay Frick, whose attitude toward labor is implacably hostile ; his secret military preparations while designedly prolonging the peace negotiations with the Amalgamated ; the fortification of the Homestead steel-works ; the erection of a high board fence, capped by barbed wire and provided with loopholes for sharpshooters ; the hiring of an army of Pinkerton thugs ; the attempt to smuggle them, in the dead of night, into Homestead ; and, finally, the terrible carnage.
Inspired by Most's theories of Attentat, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, enraged by the deaths of workers during the Homestead strike, put words into action with Berkman's attempted assassination of Homestead factory manager Henry Clay Frick in 1892.
Frick later played a critical role in the Homestead Strike and in brokering the deal between Carnegie and J. P. Morgan that created U. S. Steel.
Alexander Berkman ( 21 November 1870-28 June 1936 ) was a Russian writer and activist who, in 1892, attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, a wealthy industrialist involved in a bitter dispute with steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in the belief that a violent act was needed to electrify the anarchist movement.

Frick and by
He had just paid a brief visit to the Frick Collection to admire his favorite paintings by Rembrandt and Franz Hals.
A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick.
The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.
The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.
Frick did not have the muscle to take on Göring by himself so he allied with Himmler.
Interior Minister Frick also wanted a national police force, but one controlled by him, with Kurt Daluege as his police chief.
In New York's Frick Collection, two portraits by Holbein hang facing each other on the same wall of the Living Hall, one depicting Thomas Cromwell, the other Thomas More, whose execution he had procured.
The H. C. Frick Coke Company, controlled by Henry Clay Frick, was headquartered here.
In the aftermath, Frick was shot in the neck and then stabbed by Alexander Berkman, surviving the attack, while Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
In the summer 1938 Wilhelm Frick was named the patron ( Schirmherr ) of the Deutsches Turn-und Sportfest in Breslau, a patriotic sports festival attended by Hitler and all the Nazi top brass.
A long-running power struggle between the two culminated in Frick being replaced by Himmler as interior minister in 1943.
Acquired by New York City's Frick Collection, The Polish Rider is one of the Frick Museum's most valued treasures.
* Le coup de grâce ( 1939 )-translated Coup de Grace ( by Grace Frick ), ISBN 0-374-51631-6
* Mémoires d ' Hadrien ( 1951 )-translated Memoirs of Hadrian ( by Grace Frick ), ISBN 0-14-018194-6
Despite opposition from Mario Frick, a former Prime Minister, the Prince's referendum motion was carried by the electorate.
Neurath already attempted to resign in 1941 but his resignation was not accepted until August 1943, when he was succeeded by the former Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick.
Speakers at the event included baseball commissioner Ford Frick, Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray, and Cardinals owner Gussie Busch, who announced that Musial's uniform number " 6 " would be retired by the team.
Dean has several times been nominated for the Ford C. Frick Award, given each year by the Baseball Hall of Fame for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
When Germany became a single-party state, the DStP was dissolved on 28 June 1933 and Heuss was divested of his Reichstag mandate by decree of Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick with effect from July 8.
Besides Frick's election to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in, the Hall created the Ford C. Frick Award in, and presents the award annually to a baseball broadcaster for major contributions to the game.
The Nazis were met with resistance from Brill ever since he first came in contact with them after they became part of the reigning coalition in Thuringia in 1930 ; Brill was especially opposed to the politics of Nazi minister of the interior Wilhelm Frick, and led a committee of investigation established by the Landtag in 1932 that scrutinised Frick's practices.

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