What it means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist

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1889 Andrew Carnegie

“Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth
by those who have had the ability and energy to produce it”
“The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of
the laborer with us today measures the change which has come with
civilization. This change however is not to be deplored, but welcomed as
highly beneficial.”

“The Socialist or the Anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions
is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests, for civilization took its start from the day when the capable,
industrious workman said to his incompetent and lazy fellow, “If thou
dost not sow, though shalt not reap”, and thus ended primitive communism
by separating the drones from the bees.”

“We shall have an ideal State, in which surplus wealth of the few will
become, in the best sense, the property of the many, because
administered for the common good; and this wealth, passing through the
hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the
elevation of our race than if distributed in small sums to the people
themselves.”

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an
example of modest living, shunning extravagance; to provide moderately
for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so,
to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds,
which he is called upon to administer in the manner which, in his
judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for
the community- the man of wealth thus becoming a mere trustee and
agent for his poorer brethren.”

http://www.dcte.udel.edu/hlp/resources/lessons/lesson2b/2b_2.pdf

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Carnegie and one of his managers, Henry Clay Frick, were violently anti-union. In 1892, while Carnegie was in Scotland, Frick provoked a bloody strike when he demanded a pay cut and an end to the union at his Homestead plant in Pennsylvania. When the workers refused to accept Frick’s demands, he fired the entire work force and surrounded the plant with barbed wire and hired Pinkerton guards to protect the strikebreakers he brought in. Two barges carrying the Pinkerton guards were met by thousands of strikers and their friends and families, who kept the -guards from landing, in a battle that left twenty strikers dead. Stiffening his back, Frick called on the state governor to send in 7,000 militiamen to protect the replacement workers. During the four-month confrontation, a young anarchist named Alexander Berkman — the lover of “Red Emma” Goldman (1869-1940), the most notorious anarchist leader of the day — shot Frick in the stomach, but only wounded him, and he was back in his office that day.

After the militia arrived, strike leaders were charged with murder, but all were acquitted. The plant kept producing steel with workers shipped in by railroad, and other Carnegie plants failed to join the Homestead strike, a union defeat that kept labor unorganized in Carnegie plants for years to come.

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Frick then brought in outside workers and hired Pinkerton to provide security.

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In 1855, railroads operating in Chicago signed an agreement with Allan Pinkerton to have agents of his newly founded National Detective Agency supply information concerning the habits and associations of employees, and blacklists (do not employ lists) were established and circulated among railroads.

Local supervisors fixed compensation in an arbitrary manner, and supervisors dictated even where employees might live. Railroads forewarned employees in writing that their wages covered "all risks" of injury and accident. This was not inconsequential. In 1889, 1,972 rail workers (one in 357) were killed on the job, and more than 20,000 (one in 35) injured on the job.

The railroad workplace during the 19th century not only was unsafe, but one of frequent reductions in pay; favoritism in hiring, job assignment, promotion and termination; arbitrary posting (and changing) of rules; harsh discipline; constant harassment by foremen; and no machinery for handling of grievances. A labor historian wrote:

"There was a feeling among the employees that they were almost in a helpless condition to stand against the oppression of the petty officials, and the petty officials took advantage of that feeling and deviled the men just as their particular temperament at the moment led them to do."

When the fledgling Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers struck the then-largest coal-hauling railroad, the Philadelphia & Reading, on July 1, 1864, President Lincoln, citing Civil War power authority, ordered the carrier seized and operated by the U.S. Army.

Rail workers engaged in militant action again in February 1877, as tens of thousands of rail workers rioted nationwide -- protesting wage cuts-- in what later were termed the "Great Railroad Strike," and whose toll was 200 killed and more than 1,000 injured.

In Pittsburgh, during a job action, the Pennsylvania Railroad called for National Guard troops, but they didn’t respond, out of sympathy for the strikers. So the railroad’s president, Thomas Scott, asked for militia from Philadelphia to provide "a rifle diet for a few days" -- and 600 of them arrived, soon killing 20, including women and children.

President Rutherford Hayes sent federal troops and ordered the arrest of local strike leaders for obstructing the U.S. mails, with all later found guilty in federal court. This was the first time in American history that federal troops were called out in peacetime to suppress civil unrest.

http://www.utu.org/print_news.cfm?ArticleID=48681

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Frick then brought in outside workers and hired Pinkerton to provide security.

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In 1855, railroads operating in Chicago signed an agreement with Allan Pinkerton to have agents of his newly founded National Detective Agency supply information concerning the habits and associations of employees, and blacklists (do not employ lists) were established and circulated among railroads.

Local supervisors fixed compensation in an arbitrary manner, and supervisors dictated even where employees might live. Railroads forewarned employees in writing that their wages covered "all risks" of injury and accident. This was not inconsequential. In 1889, 1,972 rail workers (one in 357) were killed on the job, and more than 20,000 (one in 35) injured on the job.

The railroad workplace during the 19th century not only was unsafe, but one of frequent reductions in pay; favoritism in hiring, job assignment, promotion and termination; arbitrary posting (and changing) of rules; harsh discipline; constant harassment by foremen; and no machinery for handling of grievances. A labor historian wrote:

"There was a feeling among the employees that they were almost in a helpless condition to stand against the oppression of the petty officials, and the petty officials took advantage of that feeling and deviled the men just as their particular temperament at the moment led them to do."

When the fledgling Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers struck the then-largest coal-hauling railroad, the Philadelphia & Reading, on July 1, 1864, President Lincoln, citing Civil War power authority, ordered the carrier seized and operated by the U.S. Army.

Rail workers engaged in militant action again in February 1877, as tens of thousands of rail workers rioted nationwide -- protesting wage cuts-- in what later were termed the "Great Railroad Strike," and whose toll was 200 killed and more than 1,000 injured.

In Pittsburgh, during a job action, the Pennsylvania Railroad called for National Guard troops, but they didn’t respond, out of sympathy for the strikers. So the railroad’s president, Thomas Scott, asked for militia from Philadelphia to provide "a rifle diet for a few days" -- and 600 of them arrived, soon killing 20, including women and children.

President Rutherford Hayes sent federal troops and ordered the arrest of local strike leaders for obstructing the U.S. mails, with all later found guilty in federal court. This was the first time in American history that federal troops were called out in peacetime to suppress civil unrest.

http://www.utu.org/print_news.cfm?ArticleID=48681

We're talking about Frick and Carnegie, remember?

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i'm researching pinkerton's history. was carnegie hiring pinkerton to provide security or as a private militia to give strikers a 'rifle diet'...

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