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…showed last 75 words of 424 total…Illinois as a community for the workers of his company. A violent strike occured in 1894 when the company reduced the wages without lessening the rents in the local town. Whether they were robber barons or captains of industry, each of these men had some sort of significant contribution to the growth of America. All were industrialists, some acquiring their wealth more honestly than others. The wealthy industrialists of the late nineteenth century were robber barons.