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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: February 15, 2010, 11:51:54 PM »

Depends on what all the strikers are doing.  I'll happily support Cleveland's actions against the thuggish and racist American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike.  That said, the monopolistic and paternalistic Pullman Company doesn't get any sympathy from me either.
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 08:11:10 PM »

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.
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2010, 03:29:21 PM »

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.

And so ? Let's kill them for that ?

No, for attacking the troops who were sent to keep the strikers from attacking the strikebreakers who were willing to work for the wages the strikers thought were inadequate.  What were the troops supposed to do?  Let themselves be beaten and killed by the strikers?  Let them terrorize others with mob tactics?
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