Wait, WHAT?! You're telling me that the Scabs and soldiers WOULDN'T have fired on the strikers unless the strikers were armed? Have you ever heard of the Bonus March, and what happened to them? 30,000 WWI vets and their families, routed out of Washington DC with tanks, machinegun fire, teargas, elements of the U.S. Cavalry, and nearly a regiment of Infantry. The nukber of deaths is unknown, but estimates start at 500 and keep on climbing.
The US Gov't and their Mercantile Corporatist allies have their own sordid history of massacres and murders; don't ever forget it.
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