Editing Strike action (section)

===Violence===
[[File:Ramon Casas Charge.jpg|thumb|''The charge'' by [[Ramon Casas]] (1899)]]
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Historically, some employers have attempted to break union strikes by force. One of the most famous examples of this occurred during the [[Homestead Strike]] of 1892. Industrialist [[Henry Clay Frick]] sent private security agents from the [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency]] to break [[Homestead strike|a strike]], organised by the [[Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers]] at a [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]], steel mill. Two strikers were killed, twelve wounded, along with two Pinkertons killed and eleven wounded.

In the aftermath, Frick was shot in the neck and then stabbed by an unaffiliated anarchist, [[Alexander Berkman]], in an assassination attempt. Frick survived the attack, while Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison.