Redneck Army breaks through at Blair Mountain.

What are the effects of the Redneck Army breaking through at Blair Mountain and reaching their goal of setting up the Union by force in Logan and Mingo counties?
 
Not sure how it can be succesful, the miners were pretty close to breaking the sherrifs lines but retreated when the military arrived.
Bear in mind that its pretty clear that the coal board wanted the miners to march on blair mountain, the massacres of mining families anmd sypathisers by chafin and his anti-union thugs were designed to draw them out into battle.
The consequences of a ''victory'' or perhaps more likely no march and a settlement, would be pretty big i would think. Probably similar ''armed union'' type scenarios srpinging up, less government co-operation with unions perhaps leading to a failed or stillborn new deal. Perhaps a more succesful business plot if Ford and co. think the government is caving in to the ''reds''.
In short i don;t really think a compromise such as your describing would be that reachable, as we saw ten years later with the brutal suppression of the bonus army in washington any nation state has to respond with force to situations of that sort, or be replaced.
 
When I spotted this thread, I must admit my initial thought was "WTF is he on about?!? Is this some bizarre POD?

Then I looked it up... I hadn't realized union-boss relations in the US had ever become so awful!

Anyway... as endlesstuesday said, it's pretty likely that, if successful, this inspires similar efforts elsewhere. I don't know if the government would necessarily crack down, but I would think the relationship between boss and worker would be (even more) adversarial. On the other hand, knowing what workers can be capable of, some bosses may make the effort to get the workers on their side by providing better working conditions.
 
When I spotted this thread, I must admit my initial thought was "WTF is he on about?!? Is this some bizarre POD?

Then I looked it up... I hadn't realized union-boss relations in the US had ever become so awful!

Anyway... as endlesstuesday said, it's pretty likely that, if successful, this inspires similar efforts elsewhere. I don't know if the government would necessarily crack down, but I would think the relationship between boss and worker would be (even more) adversarial. On the other hand, knowing what workers can be capable of, some bosses may make the effort to get the workers on their side by providing better working conditions.

Very few people know aobut the American Labor Wars, people like Mother Jones led a pro-labor movement in America that became something of an American Socialist movement (which had almost nothing in common with its European counterpart) but the movement was killed off when Anarchists and Marxists started to get involved.

Hopefully though if the UMWA boys can break through the lines of the Bladwin Felts they can force the govenment and the comapnies into a settelment, and hopefully keep the damn commies and anarchists far far away from the American labor movement as it would be seen as more a puerly American thing "American workers working for America." and the like.
 
I just recently learned about this (on TV Tropes). I watched a documentary about it long ago, but had forgotten about it.
 
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