Google Pinkertons, 1892

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States

BTW elitism doesn't faze me. I can't help but be elitist about some things, like music. I find some widely accepted ideas like "common sense" to be offensive af; the only acknowledgement I can bring myself to make of the idea is at the level of "don't hold your hand in a fire."

BTW ...

"If you don't pay your taxes, men with guns will show up at your house, initiate force and put you in jail."

"This is not initiation of force. It is enforcement of contract, in this case an explicit social contract. Many libertarians make a big deal of "men with guns" enforcing laws, yet try to overlook the fact that "men with guns" are the basis of enforcement of any complete social system. Even if libertarians reduced all law to "don't commit fraud or initiate force", they would still enforce with guns."

https://theworld.com/~mhuben/faq.html#initiate