Lefty could do with reading some labor history. Violence was an integral strategy against labour, including by the big boys - vide J D Rockefeller and the Ludlow massacre. Henry Ford had to be deposed because he couldn't stand the idea of giving up his hired thugs. Try Samuel Yellen, American Labor Struggles; Robert Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America; and Alan Wolfe's The Seamy Side of Democracy. The WAgner Act moved the attack on labor from violent repression to the fields of law and propaganda. Wolfe's Seamy Side has an interesting table on the use of the National Guard against …
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