Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell”
Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had settled on The Battle of Homestead, as it was later called, fourteen men had lost their lives and countless more injured form the event.
Standiford books speaks of the rag to riches story of both these men. “Andrew Carnegie rose from a penniless wretch …show more content…
Due mainly to the disagreements concerning Frick’s and other partners sale of Carnegie firm to outside investor, who Carnegie did not find fitting to hold a share of his business. Years went by and several lawsuits were filed by Frick towards Carnegie for forcing him out of his high position in the Carnegie’s company. It was not until Carnegie was nearing the end of his life did Carnegie call on one of his caregivers over to his bedside. He asked for a pen and paper and started to write. Carnegie now eight three years of age was writing a reconciliation note to Frick, after close to twenty years of not speaking to each other. It could have been that Carnegie was feeling the end come near that he felt the reason to send that letter to Frick. Frick’s response to the latter was one that Carnegie did not wish for.
The title of this book “Meet You In Hell” more and likely was derived from Frick’s remark made on 1919 in reply to Carnegie latter, where he suggests that both of them, because of the actions they have taken over the years, are to end up in Hell. Not to long after that last exchange of words between the once partners, Frick and Carnegie passed
Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had settled on The Battle of Homestead, as it was later called, fourteen men had lost their lives and countless more injured form the event.
Standiford books speaks of the rag to riches story of both these men. “Andrew Carnegie rose from a penniless wretch …show more content…
Due mainly to the disagreements concerning Frick’s and other partners sale of Carnegie firm to outside investor, who Carnegie did not find fitting to hold a share of his business. Years went by and several lawsuits were filed by Frick towards Carnegie for forcing him out of his high position in the Carnegie’s company. It was not until Carnegie was nearing the end of his life did Carnegie call on one of his caregivers over to his bedside. He asked for a pen and paper and started to write. Carnegie now eight three years of age was writing a reconciliation note to Frick, after close to twenty years of not speaking to each other. It could have been that Carnegie was feeling the end come near that he felt the reason to send that letter to Frick. Frick’s response to the latter was one that Carnegie did not wish for.
The title of this book “Meet You In Hell” more and likely was derived from Frick’s remark made on 1919 in reply to Carnegie latter, where he suggests that both of them, because of the actions they have taken over the years, are to end up in Hell. Not to long after that last exchange of words between the once partners, Frick and Carnegie passed