When Dead0Man is on the Miners side it's clear the Mine Owners suck
Yes but the right of private property > sh**tty morals to me.
The owners should and did have the right to evict people for joining a union. If they didn't want to be evicted they shouldn't have joined the union.
yes, of course, but the mine owners made choices that lead to the unionization. If the "owners" (in general, not just of coal mines) had treated the workers better in the 19th century and early 20th century, horrible ideologies would have never happened or at least never caught on. The Free Market doesn't have to (and shouldn't) lead to things like company towns where the company owns everything from the floors in the houses to the local congressman. Where the employers don't get paid in real American currency, but paper that only works in the Company Store, with jacked prices. The owners were so quick to use heavy violence if anyone tried to get in the way.
Of course the unions could be every bit as horrible and violent, but usually only after being pushed to it by the owners.
I am 100% for strong private property rights, but it must be under a system as fair for everyone as we can make it. It will probably never be perfectly fair, but it's certainly light years better than it was at the time of The Battle of Blair Mountain.
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