Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anonymous Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Andrew Carnegie's legacy Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:58:03 -0400 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:58:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="c4af4a3027e8317d29ea238d8aa6bb2f616aa3fc"; logging-data="1212612"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2010 Lines: 25 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.