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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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borough of See also:Allegheny See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:Monongahela See also:river, 8 m. S.E. of See also:Pittsburg. Pop. (1890) 7911; (1900) 12i554, of whom 3604 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 64o were negroes; (U.S. See also:census, 1910) 18,713. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg & See also:Lake See also:Erie See also:railways, and by the See also:short See also:Union Railroad, which connects with the See also:Bessemer & Lake Erie and the See also:Wabash railways. The borough has a See also:Carnegie library and the C.M. Schwab See also:Manual Training School. Partly in Homestead but chiefly in the adjoining borough of Munhall (and therefore not reported as in Homestead by the U.S. Census) is one of the largest See also:plants in the See also:United States for the manufacture of See also:steel used in the construction of See also:bridges and steel-See also:frame buildings and of steel See also:armour-See also:plate, and this is its See also:chief See also:industry; among Homestead's other manufactures are See also:glass and See also:fire-bricks. The See also:water-See also:works are owned and operated by the See also:municipality. Homestead was. first settled in 1871, and it was incorporated in 1880. In 1892 a labour strike lasting 143 days and one of the most serious in the See also:history of the United States was carried on here by the See also:National Amalgamated Association of See also:Iron and Steel Workers of the United States against the Carnegie Steel See also:Company.

The arrival (on the 6th of See also:

July) of a force of about 200 See also:Pinkerton detectives from New See also:York and See also:Chicago resulted in a fight in which about 10 men were killed, and to restore See also:order two brigades of the See also:state See also:militia were called out. See STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

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