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.
Private property rights are important, but housing is different from other business relationships as there is a clear power dynamic. Much of pre-WWII landlord-tenant law was a relic of medieval feudalism that was not compatible with a free society. The abuses in the sharecropping South were even worse than this incident.
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