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Subject: Re: Andrew Carnegie's legacy
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:58:03 -0400
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JAB wrote:
> Andrew Carnegie's legacy is steeped in ruthlessness
> 
> When I was a young adult in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Andrew
> Carnegie built his wealth (Letters, 12 April), it was hard to walk a
> block without something attesting to the man's legacy: Carnegie Mellon
> University, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural
> History, Carnegie Science Center, and buses to Carnegie (an entire
> borough). Carnegie libraries dotted every small town in the area.
> 
> Carnegie made his fortune by ruthlessly defending the systems that
> kept extreme poverty rampant during the era - by exposing his workers
> to extreme working conditions with little rest and even less pay. He
> resorted to violence to keep them from securing protections such as
> safety policies, healthy working hours and fair wages. Men, women and
> children were injured or died during the Homestead strike. The money
> that carved institutions in his name came from anything other than
> peace.

The union started the violence at Homestead, and the rest of that paragraph
is a pack of lies.

> Michelle Bufton
> Ludlow, Shropshire

Rape her.