Sure, how dare those bastards refuse to serve their benevolent masters and work for their prosperity ?
More like how dare those bastards use force and intimidation to keep others from working. That's where the Pullman Strikers went wrong.
They'd need the Democrats to split into two parties as they did then to do it. For instance, in California if the Democrats and the Populists had been united, instead of the Republicans winning six of teh seven seats of the delegation, they'd have had no seats whatsoever.