Because history tends to repeat itself and these stories echo events in real life.
They are often held in major port cities,
Labor unrest and confrontations between labor unions and employers in the United States has been present basically since the 19th century, as a response to the impact of the Industrial Revolution. National labor unions began in the post Civil War era and one of the first documented started operating in the 1880's, when most of the unrest began in response to the abuse and unfair treatment and lack of legal protection for workers against the big companies. Many of the industries were hit hard by the formation of these unions, but none more than the railroad and steel industries. 1. Labor violence could have been prevented and could have been avoided if: a) laws had been passed to protect workers better and b) If part of the plan of employers and officials to disband unions had not been to introduce spies and agitators into the unions´ ranks to create unrest so that the union would be blamed for causing trouble. 2. The unions were created to prevent the abuse of employers on workers on the topics of salary, worker´s unfair replacement, compensations. But also, to create a monopoly, meaning, workers wanted to ensure that companies could not simply get rid of workers from the union to replace them with non-unionized laborers. Usually these unions used strikes to put forth their demands and in many ocassions ended up attacking and killing strikebreakers and replacement workers instead of the employers themselves. 3. Because the formation of unions meant that workers were for the first time not willing to simply follow the instructions and demands of a company. They began joining together in an attempt to demand better working conditions, something companies did not have to face up until then. Also, the result of these constant strikes and the violence forced the state and national governments to take measures and pass laws that in the end did not benefit their companies.
Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights of 1689
