Andrew Carnegie

 Natalie Gross

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

12 April 2022

Andrew Carnegie

        Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland and his family moved to the US thirteen years later. There he worked in the factories for a small wage of $1.20 ($43.67 today) a week. I don't know exactly how long the hours were, but given other factory jobs around that time, I would assume they were too many for the wage he got. This and many other jobs that he had would lead him to become a well-known advocate for union rights. This though didn't stop him from fighting against them with his own company later on in his life. Carnegie went on to become a railroad division superintendent where he invested in iron, oil, and coal companies. These investments went very well and he ended up very rich because of them. He then kept expanding his investments, eventually starting his own steel company and with the money bought out his competition, building his own empire. This is where he abandoned his values and fought against the very thing he had previously advocated for. Carnegie started cutting wages as soon as the contract with the unions ended. After this, he left the country and the only person he was in contact with was Henry Clay Frick, his chief executive. Frick then seemingly did everything he could to pit Carnegie against the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. He locked the workers out of the factory but little did he know, that all of the workers, not just the union members, would come back to fight. Frick saw this and did what he had seen many other companies do to combat the striking workers, he called the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. This caused a large fight that ended with almost a dozen people dead. While Carnegie has said that he was in support of union rights, when it came to his own company, his opinions changed. 

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