HIST 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pinkerton (Detective Agency), Direct Election, State Ownership
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Under carnegie and henry clay frick the plants would operate on a non union. Workers responded with blockades of the plant with support from the local community. Strikers go head on the 300 private policemen from the pinkerton detective. 7 workers and 3 pinkerton detectives are killed. Shows how government is using force, acting as if they are a strike breaker. Support the industrialists and not the workers. Wanted to get away from gold standard and have money be backed by silver. Get government to get warehouses for them to store their crops before they"re stored and use it as collateral to get low interest loans. Evolves into a political party called the populists/people"s party. For the workers, concerned about factories and farmers. Used all means of communication possible to decimate their message. Workers respond with force, farmers respond with politics. Prior to this they were elected by the state legislatures. Low cost public financing so farmers could market crops.
