An event on Sunday remembered one of the most violent conflicts in American labor history that happened in the Pittsburgh region.
An educational nonprofit, the Battle of Homestead Foundation marked the 133rd anniversary of the Homestead Steel Strike with a public gathering featuring a guest speaker and live music at the Pump House in Munhall.
In the spring of 1892, Homestead Steel Works owner Andrew Carnegie hired a private paramilitary force to break up a union strike and reopen the mill with non-union workers…