Learn about a bloody confrontation between management and workers in 1892 at the Carnegie Steel Company plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and the government’s role in ending the strike, in this video adapted from The Gilded Age: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. After Carnegie directed his right-hand man Henry Clay Frick to cut wages and refuse to negotiate with the two steelworkers' unions at the Homestead plant, the union leaders called a strike. A battle followed between union employees and the security force that Frick had hired to protect nonunion replacement workers. Carnegie ultimately asked the governor of Pennsylvania to send in National Guard troops to force the striking workers to surrender.