Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Frick returns to work via streetcar”

Frick, the chairman of Carnegie Steel, had been sitting at his desk in the Hussey Building on Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue when he was attacked by anarchist Alexander Berkman. The assault occurred on the afternoon of July 23, and it turned much of the public in Pittsburgh against the workers who were on strike at the […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Attack on Frick hurts Homestead strike”

The shooter, an anarchist named Alexander Berkman, also stabbed the chairman of the Carnegie steel company with a homemade dagger. Frick survived but Berkman’s attempted assassination of the industrial magnate turned public opinion against the men who were occupying the Carnegie works in Homestead. Continue Reading

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Let’s learn from the past: Assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick”

The news received national attention and ignited public criticism of Frick. One dissenter, Russian anarchist Alexander Berkman, devised a plan to assassinate Frick and inspire a national working-class revolt. On July 23, Berkman entered Frick’s office in downtown Pittsburgh and fired three shots from his revolver, two of which hit Frick in the neck. Frick’s […]

CBS Pittsburgh, “Renowned Actor Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead”

Two weeks later Frick would survive an assassination attempt after being shot in his downtown office by the anarchist Alexander Berkman — sympathy for the workers diminished, the governor sent in the state militia and the union was broken. But rather than dusty, old history, Rylance says the battle was over machines replacing labor — […]

The New York Times, “New York Today: The City and the Great War”

Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, two of the best-known anarchists in the country, operated out of New York, and socialists and the working class led protests. Continue Reading