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church. I was going to learn English, take out my first papers, try to educate myself a little. After all, my children will be Americans, real Amer...
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a thick Scotch brogue
They had no idea what he was saying.
The valley of steel was stirring out of its Sabbath lull.
Kracha huddled in the stern of the rowboat and contemplated the dark waters, the restless fires, the unnatural sky; and for the first time since he'd set foot in America, felt himself in a strange land.
Schwab,
Mike Dobrejcak,
“The Irish are moving out of that house on Washington next to the shoemaker, you know the one I mean,” Dorta said thoughtfully. She had rented it by the time Dubik got home from work the next day, and when Kracha visited them at Christmas she had three boarders besides young Mike and was looking none the worse for it.
His father had died the previous winter under notable circumstances.
He had been one of the more comfortably situated Slovaks in the village; unlike the great majority he could read and write, and for a time he had been the village notar, a sort of secretary to the Mayor.
he would have been called for military service,
half a dozen young men from various villages, all as poor, all as eager to get to America, he crossed central Europe on foot,
Bremen.
The journey took about th...
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On the ship an officer picked Mike out of the crowd
Says something about his prepossession.
ten dollars.
$295 today, c. 1/3 the cost of the trip
He offered what help he could.
Kracha, having gaped and sniffed at the ruins in Washington Street and washed the taste of them out of his mouth in Wold's saloon, repeated his offer once more and then took his money and a sense of well-being back to Homestead;
Joe Wold,
Wold was a Slovak Jew and a growing power in the First Ward.
one reason there were so many Slovaks in Braddock from Wold's—
native Sarisa.
the new house the company erected alm...
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Work slackened more than seasonally the following summer.
first streetcars appeared in Braddock,
Francka bought a house.
Munhall H...
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Francka became pregnant.
after twelve years she was with child.
Victor,
Frick, Carnegie's new partner and Gen...
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FRICK had smashed the unions in his coke ovens at Connellsville and some people said he meant to do a similar job in Homestead,
people who snorted disrespectfully when they were reminded that in books and speeches Carnegie had uttered some impressive sounds about democracy and workers' rights.
Fort Frick.
Like asking a man to dig his own grave.”
There were, of course, no Slovaks or unskilled workers in the union.
Andrej,
F...
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the controlling factor in his life.
He worked and saved and then something happened and he was back where he'd started.
“If there's a strike how long do you think it will last?” “Not long. Carnegie can't afford to have his mills shut down long.” “For that matter neither can I.” “What are you talking about? While you're losing a dollar Carnegie will be losing thousands. And these millionaires love a dollar more than you or I. Take a penny from them and they bleed.”
If the union lets Frick have his way it will be the finish for everybody.
“Carnegie
I hope the union beats him. They would be in a better position today if they had helped us in Braddock four years ago.
if they lose—well, I suppose Carnegie will give them a library.
Haha. He did.
The “Homestead Strike” began as a lockout, not a strike.
Sheriff’s deputies?
There was no violence, no disorder, until the morning of July 6,
Elena? Or Andrew?
“If it's the mill, let the Irish take care of it.
