(HC) The day after a gun battle broke out during the Homestead Strike, Andrew Carnegie
wrote this message in response to a cable from Henry Clay Frick:
"Cable received. All anxiety gone since you stand firm. Never employ one of these
rioters. Let grass grow over [the steel] works. Must not fail now."
Source: http://www. pbs. org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_ letters. html
How might the results of the conflict have been different if Henry Clay Frick had not
followed Carnegie's instructions? (3 points)
The strikers might have achieved their goal of not taking a pay cut, and the union power would
have been strengthened.
The strikebreakers might have rejoined the strike, and the steel mill would have been forced to
give into the demands of the strikers.
O The strikers might have kept the strikebreakers from crossing the picket lines, and there would
have been fewer strikes.
O The strikebreakers might have prevented the machines in the mill from working, and it would
have shut down.