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The most violent attack on American soil since the civil war was when strike breakers with a private air (yes, really) force bombed strikers in the Battle of Bl
by pydry 3y ago
The most violent attack on American soil since the civil war was when strike breakers with a private air (yes, really) force bombed strikers in the Battle of Blair mountain:
https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising-the-battle-of-blair-mountain https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising...
Sympathy for these strikers who were the subject of violent attacks by the 1% was key to the rise of Union sympathy in the United Statesm This subsequently the new deal and eventually the rise of the middle class (something that is now being steadily destroyed).
That kind of violence against peaceful strikers will probably happen again.
When greed and profit meets a desire for a fair wage and standing up for one's rights, ordinary workers eventually die at the hands of strikebreakers - just as the workers at Blair mountain did.