stackyFACTSDiplomacy is absolutely useless when you can just deploy a private militia. Industrial titans routinely hired armed detective agencies to violently infiltrate, disrupt, and physically assault striking workers, proving that early labor disputes were essentially just minor civil wars fought over basic safety.
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