Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)

25 Nov 05 - 08:25 AM (#1613485)
Subject: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: Abby Sale


Happy Birthday!

Andrew Carnegie
(Who established nearly every library in the US & many in scotland with his blood money)

was born 11/25/1835
(d.1919)

          Now the troubles down at Homestead
                  were brought about this way
          When a grasping corporation
                  had the audacity to say:
          "You must all renounce your union
                  and forswear your liberty,
          And we'll give you a chance to live
                  and die in slavery."
  
                   Homestead Strike; Pete Seeger, Carry It On,

Re: Homestead Strike of 1892; Carnegie Steel locked out 3,800 Amalgamated Assn Iron & Steel workers and finally hired 300 Pinkertons with guns, dynamite and cannon to break the strike. Tally was 10 dead, over 60 wounded. (The workers killed 7 scabs.)

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25 Nov 05 - 08:29 AM (#1613488)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: breezy

Was he a Scotsman too!?

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25 Nov 05 - 09:13 AM (#1613508)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: Jeri

Yes, Breezy.
Also see Brian McNeill's "Steel Man" on the CD Back o' the North Wind.

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27 Nov 05 - 06:54 PM (#1615014)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: Susanne (skw)

See Lyr Req: Steel Man

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27 Nov 05 - 10:36 PM (#1615168)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: Scoville

I went to Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, which once featured a Carnegie library (although the building has since been converted to classroom space). I was told it was the first college library in the United States endowed by Carnegie but I don't know if that's true. Anyway, my band-mates and I used to joke that we should have gone and played on the front steps just so we could say we'd played Carnegie Hall. Yuk yuk.

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28 Nov 05 - 10:42 PM (#1616038)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Nov 25 (Andrew Carnegie)
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Pete Seeger, I have heard, once remarked that his appearing in Carnegie Hall did not imply approval of Andrew Carnegie or Gus Hall.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Most men die of their remedies, not of their illnesses. :||

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