The United Mine Workers of America finally ran out of money, and called off the strike on December 10, 1914. In the end, the strikers’ demands were not met, the union did not obtain recognition, and many striking workers were replaced. 408 strikers were arrested, 332 of whom were indicted for murder.
Labor Reforms came from public pressure and legislative action, not 1,200 coalminers killing 20 people and lighting a coal mine on fire, 500 getting arrested, and dissolving their own organization due to lack of funds. The organization literally didn’t exist when the reforms happened.
The French Revolution was decades of bloodshed which nearly fell into autocracy again, there are countless violent revolutions which have failed in the same vein.
The rich won’t stop killing us if we ask them nicely. All progress has involved threatening the lives or property of the powerful.
No progress has involved that. Ever. All progress has come from legislative reform.
Someone has never heard of the Ludlow Massacre, I see.
Obviously neither have you.
Maybe you should keep reading: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/ludlow-massacre-spurred-new-deal-labor-reforms/
My whole point that you missed entirely is that legislative reform is often the result of some kind of violence happening.
Labor Reforms came from public pressure and legislative action, not 1,200 coalminers killing 20 people and lighting a coal mine on fire, 500 getting arrested, and dissolving their own organization due to lack of funds. The organization literally didn’t exist when the reforms happened.
the french revolution was famously not about porcefully taking power from those in power
The French Revolution was decades of bloodshed which nearly fell into autocracy again, there are countless violent revolutions which have failed in the same vein.
Ah yes, legislative reform that emerges from nothing but the powerful suddenly deciding to be nicer.
In an autocracy like China that would be true, but in the western world they mostly practice Democracy.