Organization
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Private detective agency whose guards the Carnegie Steel Company engaged at Homestead in 1892.
- Also known as
- Pinkertons
Connections 2
contracts from
- Carnegie Steel Company Jun 1892 300 guards for the Homestead works Primary record 1
involved in
- Homestead lockout and battle guards brought by barge Scholarship & press 2
Timeline 1 date
- Jun 1892 Carnegie Steel Company awarded a contract to Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Proof 2 sources
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Investigation of the Employment of Pinkerton Detectives in Connection with the Labor Troubles at Homestead, Pa. (House Miscellaneous Document 335), U.S. House of Representatives, 52nd Congress (scan via Internet Archive), 1892.
Primary record
I then had the preliminary arrangements made for these men with an agent of Mr. Pinkerton, that is to say, an understanding what we were to pay for these men.
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Battle of Homestead (Behind the Marker), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Explore PA History.
Scholarship & press
On July 6, the company tried to move 300 Pinkerton guards into the heavily fortified mill, floating them up the river on two large covered barges.
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