News From USW: Homestead Steel Legacy Focus of Public Meeting at Pump House Saturday.PITTSBURGH -- News From USW USW Und So Weiter (German: and so on) USW Undersea Warfare USW United Steel Workers USW US Wheat Associates USW Ultrasonic Welding USW Ultra Short Wave USW US West Telecommunications (stock symbol) : A panel including noted author William Serrin, scholars, area workers, union leaders and community members will take part in an open forum Saturday to discuss the closing of the Homestead steel mill 20 years ago, and its impact on the region. This discussion will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, at Homestead's Pump House, near the riverfront mall complex on Waterfront Drive, and is open to the public. The Pump House is the last remaining building from the Homestead steel works Homestead Steel Works, located in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was a rival of the steel company, Carnegie Steel, founded by Andrew Carnegie (an immigrant of Scotland). Carnegie Steel eventually bought Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and that was built in the post-Civil War era, became a top producer of American steel, and was the scene of the famous July 6, 1892 Battle of Homestead between union steelworkers and Pinkerton guards hired by Pittsburgh steel barons Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick. On Friday, July 7, Serrin, local attorney Mike Healey and Indiana University of Pennsylvania History IUP was founded in 1875 as a normal school by investors in Indiana County. It followed the mold of the French Ecole Normale. When it opened its doors it enrolled just 225 students. professor Charles McCollester will lead a discussion with dozens of history teachers at the Pump House on the history and development of constitutional law. Free speech and assembly rights were severely curtailed during the period between the Battle of Homestead, when workers' rights were curtailed, and the successful organization of the Homestead mill by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee The Steel Workers Organizing Committee was one of two precursor labor organizations to the United Steelworkers. It was formed by the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) in 1936. It disbanded in 1942 to become the United Steel Workers of America. (SWOC SWOC Steel Workers Organizing Committee (later became United Steelworkers of America CIO) SWOC Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee (Seattle, WA) SWOC Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Constraints ) in 1937, when these rights were restored. SWOC was the predecessor of today's United Steelworkers. William Serrin is a former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times labor writer who covered the mill closing as a reporter before authoring the acclaimed book, "Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town." The Saturday event - held on the 20th anniversary of the mills closing by U.S. Steel - is sponsored by the Battle of Homestead Foundation, a community organization dedicated to maintaining the memory, traditions and fighting spirit of working people of the region. |
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