- Three years after Frank Little was lynched, a strike by Butte miners was suppressed with gunfire when deputized mine guards suddenly fired upon unarmed picketers in the Anaconda Road Massacre. Seventeen were shot in the back as they tried to flee, and one man died.
- In 1914 when mine guards and the state militia fired into a tent colony of striking miners in Colorado, an incident that came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre.[42] During that strike, the company hired the Baldwin Felts agency, which built an armored car so their agents could approach the strikers’ tent colonies with impunity. The strikers called it the “Death Special”. At the Forbes tent colony,
“The Death Special opened fire, a protracted spurt that sent some six hundred bullets tearing through the thin tents. One of the shots struck miner Luka Vahernik, fifty, in the head, killing him instantly. Another striker, Marco Zamboni, eighteen ... suffered nine bullet wounds to his legs... One tent was later found to have about 150 bullet holes...”
Sure does not sound like the goons were the workers
These were men with families- daughters and sons, wifes - and you condone this? I’m floored anyone would suggest the above is where we need to go as a country. You really want to regress 100 years?
Frankly, yes. The opposite of a regressive is progressive. And communism advocates progressive causes.
What next? A rehash of the worn-out story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -- a favorite tale of anti-American liberals. What's not told in these sob stories uttered in song by Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie and other subversives is the sabotage inflicted on the job producer's facilities by union goons. They actually sought a reaction by the factory and mine owners and were willing to have their members perish to advance their collectivist aims.
Good replies, but incomplete. We don’t want murder or death, we want liberty. Does that come from government supporting one side or another? Nope. Better that government is small and stays out of the way.
What has happened is that government has come down on the side of unions. Forced unionism is wrong and always will be. Labor always needs capital. Imagine the carpenter without a hammer. The hammer is capital, so are nails and houses. That divide is false. Get government out of the way and the bias against labor goes away.
Keep your guns and your job is my motto.
Regress? HA. We have been regressing into totalitarianism and complete control for 100 years. Our “Natural Rights from God” don’t hardly exist in this country anymore....we need permission from bureaucrats to do absolutely everything and all our Bill of Rights are now being trashed.
Freedom takes a virtuous people and that is taught and habituated in children by virtuous adults. We have to return to TRUE FREEDOM-—where we teach virtue and ALL JUST LAW promotes public virtue.
Then, employers and capitalism would work-—if people are virtuous.
As Solzhenitsyn stated—even a little bit of socialism ROTS THE SOUL-—it normalizes vice in people and sets up bureaucracies where some people have power over others which will ALWAYS CORRUPT PEOPLE.
It is the SAME story over and over. ALL EVIL PEOPLE are EVIL. It doesn’t matter the “system”——except only SOME systems promote FREEDOM and VIRTUE——and it is NEVER socialistic systems.