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To: re_nortex

Can’t deny the role of communism in unions history in the US.

However, as someone who had 1 grandfather thrown in the river and shot by Sheriff Chapin’s deputies for organizing and had another with his leg crushed in a mine and was on Blair mountain during the battle, I know there was a reason 100,000s of thousands of workers joined unions a 100 years ago.

And it wasn’t communism which attracted them.


5 posted on 11/16/2012 11:58:50 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian
you got that right.

Part of the problem was when people were hurt or murdered by the company guards or enforcers you couldn't get back at them with standard damage suits in court, nor would the government enforce the statutes against murder and mayhem.

If perhaps everybody had been allowed to carry a pistol to work (currently one of our ambitions, right?) management might not have been so ambitious to do some of the things they did then.

The second amendment is there for a reason ~ USE IT.

12 posted on 11/16/2012 12:27:23 PM PST by muawiyah
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