of the incipient American Railway Union. The union movement was thought by many business leaders to pose a fundamental threat to the nation, and its objectives to run counter to the principles of economics. The president of the National Association of Manufacturers warned in 1903 that “organized labor knows but one law and that is the law of physical force—the law of the Huns and the Vandals, the law of the savage….Composed as it is of the men of muscle rather than the men of intelligence, and commanded by leaders who are at heart disciples of revolution, it is not strange that organized labor
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