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Hi All: Some information you seek can be found in an article written by Philip Taft and Philip Ross," American Labor Violence: It's Causes, Character and Outcome," in the volume "Violence in America" published in 1968 and edited by Hugh Graham and Ted Gurr. While Taft and Ross miss some of the violence and other historical details like in Kohler, WI. where several UAW workers were shot to death organizing the Union(see Walter Uphoff's book,"Kohler on Strike"), they catch a good deal in this article. Employer and organized crime goon squads were used extensively in the Fur and Leather Union struggles (See Philip Foner's," Fur and Leather Workers Union" volume on this). There are many other labor histories that document goon squads. The practice was not limited to the U.S. In Europe and Asia employers and governments used goon squads to kill workers. You can read about some of this early labor repression by checking out the classic work of Karl Liebknecht,"Militarism and Anti-Militarism," (Dover,1972) or for Japan the book by Sen Katayama,"The Labor Movement in Japan," (Charles Kerr, 1918). Some of these killings were sanctioned by governments and in other cases local goon squads were employed by employers or right wing political movements. This was particularly true in Weimar Germany where the "Left" political parties(KPD ,USPD,SPD etc.) and trade union militants were killed openly and the perpetrators rarely punished(see the book edited by Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann,"Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany,1919-1945," (Monthly Review Press, 1989). The latter volume is one of the best treatments of this era. Other students of labor history may have other recommendations. Good luck. Peace, Ronald Kent
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