Federal Troops Sent In 100 Times in Our History
Washington, June 9 - Federal troops have been employed more than 100 time in the nation’s history to suppress domestic disturbances, prevent interference with the mails and interstate commerce and for similar purposes
An outstanding instance of the use of soldiers in a labor difficulty was the railroad strike of 1894, when President Cleveland sent troops to Illinois over the protest of the Governor.
Cleveland acted then on pleas by Federal court officers that they were unable to enforce judicial processes
Troops were sent to West Virginia in 1921 to control disturbances accompanying widespread coal strikes. A request for Federal aid was made then by the Governor.
The widest use of Federal troops in domestic disturbances was in connection with strikes in 1877 growing out of a railroad wage reduction.
Boy, that's a tough one. The Roosevelt administration would say this is a national security matter, and they would have a point. But who gets to decide what constitutes such? I can think of an administration that would have a much different idea of what national security means than most of us here.
I regard this as justified by a genuine emergency at a time when the Atlantic War was going badly and British Commonwealth was carrying the war almost by itself. IIRC the CIO was infested with Communists who were under KGB orders to derail production of war materials needed to aid Britain and prepare the US for imminent entry into war with Germany. The USSR was hoping to preserve its Polish and Baltic ill-gotten gains from the Hitler-Stalin pact.
When the German attack on the Soviets begins later this month, all of a sudden the Commies in the US unions encourage full production of war materials and labor peace to help save the USSR.
I was trying to recall a recent similar incident when I remembered that GHWB sent Federal Troops to New Orleans after the hurricane. It’s weird in that I had always had in the back of my mind that using regular Army (as opposed to National Guard) inside the U.S. was illegal. I guess not.