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Thanks for all the comments. Usually when you hear of "armed thugs breaking a strike" it's in the 1930s and they're Pinkertons or equivalent. I don't know of an

Thanks for all the comments. Usually when you hear of "armed thugs breaking a strike" it's in the 1930s and they're Pinkertons or equivalent. I don't know of any others where regular US Army troops were used. National Guard: yes. Those are usually under state control, though. I have at least two more posts on this coming. Stay tuned.

thisismytest 3y ago
Douglas MacArthur famously killed veterans that were protesting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/28/the-veterans-were-desperate-gen-macarthur-ordered-u-s-troops-to-attack-them/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/28...
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  that wasn't a strike, though