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Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921
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I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It's just a mixture of "Glossing over" and "Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it's the right one"
I think they mean that the "Wobblies" and the "Pinkertons" just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.