HC Frick died 100 years ago

[Polishprince]

His goomba, AW Mellon described him as "one of the ablest men of our generation".

Frick was a tremendous philanthropist and art collector, in addition to his outstanding achievements in the fields of steel and coal. He also owned the Old Overholt brand of rye whiskey , which is still being enjoyed today.

After his death, his humble domicile in New York City was donated to the people as an art museum, still in operation today. Frick brought fine art to the teeming masses of New York's East Side.

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[rightwinger]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

 

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As a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, he was also in large part responsible for the alterations to the South Fork Dam that caused its failure, leading to the catastrophic Johnstown Flood. His vehement opposition to unions also caused violent conflict, most notably in the Homestead Strike.

 

[Polishprince]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

 

[rightwinger]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

 

[Polishprince]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

 

[rightwinger]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

Frick owned the club and ordered the dam height lowered three feet. It failed shortly afterwards

Frick also hired Pinkerton Goons to rough up strikers

He was a goon and a thug

 

[Polishprince]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

Frick owned the club and ordered the dam height lowered three feet. It failed shortly afterwards

Frick also hired Pinkerton Goons to rough up strikers

He was a goon and a thug

He hired Pinkerton Rent a Cops to protect his property during the strike, not to rough anyone up.

And some of the rent a cops were killed by union business agents. If you go shopping in a mall this Christmas season be sure to thank the Rent a Cops for their service. Although the Pinkertons got the last laugh. The Union was able to force the Homestead Works to close, but they put a shopping mall which is policed by Rent a Cops.

 

[Picaro]

Frick never invented anything, and was mostly hired by Carnegie to be his private thug, back in the good old days when private armies roamed the U.S. shooting down victims of robber barons and assorted criminal syndicates posing as 'corporations'.

 

[rightwinger]

Frick was a son of a bitch and a bully

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

Frick owned the club and ordered the dam height lowered three feet. It failed shortly afterwards

Frick also hired Pinkerton Goons to rough up strikers

He was a goon and a thug

He hired Pinkerton Rent a Cops to protect his property during the strike, not to rough anyone up.

And some of the rent a cops were killed by union business agents. If you go shopping in a mall this Christmas season be sure to thank the Rent a Cops for their service. Although the Pinkertons got the last laugh. The Union was able to force the Homestead Works to close, but they put a shopping mall which is policed by Rent a Cops.

Pinkerton guards were thugs
Thugs supported by the Government

 

[Polishprince]

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

Frick owned the club and ordered the dam height lowered three feet. It failed shortly afterwards

Frick also hired Pinkerton Goons to rough up strikers

He was a goon and a thug

He hired Pinkerton Rent a Cops to protect his property during the strike, not to rough anyone up.

And some of the rent a cops were killed by union business agents. If you go shopping in a mall this Christmas season be sure to thank the Rent a Cops for their service. Although the Pinkertons got the last laugh. The Union was able to force the Homestead Works to close, but they put a shopping mall which is policed by Rent a Cops.

Pinkerton guards were thugs
Thugs supported by the Government

Actually, that's quite inaccurate. The Pinkerton Rent a Cops were brought in because the municipal government of Homestead was run by John McLuckie who was the union boss.

 

[rightwinger]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

 

[Polishprince]

Frick never invented anything, and was mostly hired by Carnegie to be his private thug, back in the good old days when private armies roamed the U.S. shooting down victims of robber barons and assorted criminal syndicates posing as 'corporations'.

Mr. Frick came into a partnership with Mr. Carnegie because of Frick's ample supply of coal for the production of steel. Frick was known as the Prince of Coke because of his huge supplies of local, high quality product. It was mutually beneficial as it provided Frick with a market for coal as well as provide Carnegie a supply as well as keeping Frick brand coal away from his competitors.

Finding non-PC "thugs" in the 19th Century willing to stand up to liberalw wasn't that difficult, it was a time when men were men and the broads were glad of it.

 

[Polishprince]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

Frick wasn't evil at all. The work of the industrial movement during the late 19th/early 20th brought America into the modern age of tremendous transportation and modern cities

 

[Picaro]

Frick was a generous and thoughtful man.

The story in my link tells how Frick bailed out of school banking system to help children when the school bank failed.

The teeming masses of the East Side are still visiting his former home at 1 E 70th Street and viewing his art collection. Unfortunately, he passed on before Trump came on the scene, but I think they would have gotten along great as neighbors back in the day.

Frick murdered striking workers and was responsible for the Johnstown Flood killing thousands of people

Actually, that's not accurate at all.

Union goons attacked a group of Pinkerton Rent-a-Cops who were reporting for work to secure the steel mill during the strike.

It wasn't Frick, or the people who Frick hired who fired the first shots in Homestead, PA. Several of the rent-a-cops were killed to death.

The Johnstown flood was Act of God, where a dam at a club that Mr. Frick and other industrialists belonged to gave way to adverse weather conditions.

Neither the club, nor its members were found to be liable in the least.

Frick owned the club and ordered the dam height lowered three feet. It failed shortly afterwards

Frick also hired Pinkerton Goons to rough up strikers

He was a goon and a thug

He hired Pinkerton Rent a Cops to protect his property during the strike, not to rough anyone up.

And some of the rent a cops were killed by union business agents. If you go shopping in a mall this Christmas season be sure to thank the Rent a Cops for their service. Although the Pinkertons got the last laugh. The Union was able to force the Homestead Works to close, but they put a shopping mall which is policed by Rent a Cops.

Pinkerton guards were thugs
Thugs supported by the Government

Carnegie used him as a scapegoat for his own abusive company scumbaggery while he would spend 6 months a year playing the Fashionable Intellectual Fabian Socialist in Scotland and Europe during his regular 6 months a year golfing vacations, complete with subsidizing a socialist newspaper there.

 

[Picaro]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

The mining companies were the worst of the worst, as Frick was. They were also all big fans of 'Social Darwinism' as well, it appealed to sociopaths as much then as it does today.

 

[Picaro]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

Frick wasn't evil at all. The work of the industrial movement during the late 19th/early 20th brought America into the modern age of tremendous transportation and modern cities

Nah, Carnegie would spends months in England, doing what today would be called industrial espionage, ripping off English steel makers' ideas and patents for his own plants; he was lucky enough to find a couple of excellent engineers to implement and run his factories, plus Edgar Thomson himself was no slouch at the beginning, when Carnegie bought him out. Carnegie made his first fortune by the usual method, insider trading and political corruption via hanging out with Tom Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a lucky insider's purchase of an early oil company's stock for chump change that went sky high in the first oil boom at Oil Creek, the Columbia Oil Company. He used that money to buy the Edgar Thomson plant cheap and started building bridges for inflated contracts. He was always a sleaze, hence why he and Frick were so well matched. Carnegie bought the coke company because the little scumbag sociopath came with it.

 

[Polishprince]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

The mining companies were the worst of the worst, as Frick was. They were also all big fans of 'Social Darwinism' as well, it appealed to sociopaths as much then as it does today.

Those were boom times for the high tech steel industry as well as the coal business. Actually, the mines were doing tremendous business. My grandfathers came to the United States- not to get free food or medical or sex change operations- but to get in on the ground floor of mining industry. They heard of entry level positions in the challenging field of bituminous excavation and transportation.

 

[Polishprince]

Frick is an example of the evils of unrestrained Capitalism

Frick wasn't evil at all. The work of the industrial movement during the late 19th/early 20th brought America into the modern age of tremendous transportation and modern cities

Nah, Carnegie would spends months in England, doing what today would be called industrial espionage, ripping off English steel makers' ideas and patents for his own plants; he was lucky enough to find a couple of excellent engineers to implement and run his factories, plus Edgar Thomson himself was no slouch at the beginning, when Carnegie bought him out. Carnegie made his first fortune by the usual method, insider trading and political corruption via hanging out with Tom Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a lucky insider's purchase of an early oil company's stock for chump change that went sky high in the first oil boom at Oil Creek, the Columbia Oil Company. He used that money to buy the Edgar Thomson plant cheap and started building bridges for inflated contracts. He was always a sleaze, hence why he and Frick were so well matched. Carnegie bought the coke company because the little scumbag sociopath came with it.

Mr. Thomson was Carnegie's customer, not his employee. A high official of the Pennsylvania Railroad who bought a lot of rails from the Scotsman.