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We also had the ludlow massacre where the local militia and mine company guards attacked the miners with machine guns (pre nfa...) and dynamite https://en.m.wik
by ixacto 6y ago
We also had the ludlow massacre where the local militia and mine company guards attacked the miners with machine guns (pre nfa...) and dynamite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre.
- m000 6y agoFor anyone interested, there's a 2014 documentary [1] about the Massacre and Louis Tikas [2], the main labor union organizer of the coal miners. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U0Hwb-7ao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U0Hwb-7ao [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tikas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tikas
- CryptoPunk 6y agoIt's important to remember that the strikers started the violence: >>When leasing the sites, the union had selected locations near the mouths of canyons that led to the coal camps in order to block any strikebreakers' traffic. Blocking strikebreaker traffic amounts to using violence to obstruct others' freedom of movement. Strikebreakers were often assaulted and sometimes murdered. The fundamentally coercive nature of historical striking activity is heavily glossed over, and modern day anti-free-market ideologues go to extreme lengths to try to justify it.