Question

Use the text and your knowledge of the Homestead Strike to answer the following question. Some weeks before this tragic act, Carnegie went away/ To see the banks O'Bonny Doon, that FRICK might have his say / 'Twas then he wired to Pinkerton, I want eight hundred strong / One "V" per day shall be the pay, so bring your thugs along. The last line of the song says to "bring your thugs along." Who are the "thugs" the author is referencing? o Carnegie and Frick o the Pinkertons the striking workers DONE

Answer 1

The "thugs" the author of the song is referencing are the Pinkertons.

• The Pinkertons (better known as The Pinkerton National Detective Agency) were a private security outfit founded by Allan Pinkerton in 1850 to tackle railway theft.  Allan Pinkerton was a former deputy sheriff of Cook County in Illinois State.

• The Carnegie Steel Company, based in Homestead, Pennsylvania, in 1892, hired the Pinkerton police force to quell the rioting strike by discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union.  The Workers Union was striking over a proposed wage cut.

Thus, the Pinkertons were able to bust the 1877 railway strike by the Workers Union, suppressing Workers Unionism in the Steel Industry for many years.

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Answer 2

Answer:

B.   The "thugs" the author of the song is referencing are the Pinkertons.

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