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This is a 7 page paper which discusses the history and concept of the play "The Cradle Will Rock."
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Today, the AFL-CIO even has its headquarters in sight of the White House in Washington, D.C. At the time that this story took place, 1937, unions were at a
pivotal point in their history after nearly fifty years of bloody confrontations and now and then progress. The play is a tongue in check depiction of the real atmosphere surrounding
the formation of unions and the interaction of workers, unions and companies. BACKGROUND The background to The Cradle Will Rock is placed in the 1890s when in 1892, Andrew Carnegies
"Steeltown" in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was the site of a horrific confrontation (Audience Guide..., 2005). At that time, negotiations had broken down between the administration at Carnegies plant and the
amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tim Workers. Henry Clay Frick, who was the factory manager at Carnegies factory, locked out the entire work force which numbered nearly 4,000
employees (Audience Guide..., 2005). He then hired the Pinkerton agency who supplied over 300 men who were armed to guard the barbed wire fence that Frick had used to
enclose the plant (Audience Guide..., 2005). Enraged by the actions of Frick, the locked out employees attacked the Pinkertons when they tried to enter the plant (Audience Guide..., 2005).
The battle included the use of guns and dynamite. When the battle ended, sixteen people were dead, and almost 160 were wounded (Audience Guide..., 2005). The State
interceded and dispelled the strikers, and Carnegie hired non-union replacements. The press even got into the act and labeled the striking employees as anarchists. In another incident, in 1894,
the Pullman workers stuck when they saw their wages lowered to 76 cents a day (Audience Guide..., 2005). The Pullman workers received support from the huge American Railway Union
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