The real goons have always worn suits. They just hired others- Pinkertons, etc.- to do the heavy lifting.

George Baer, President, Reading Railroad, 1902
On the UMW Strike in the Anthracite Coal Fields:

"The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by Christian men to whom God, in his infinite wisdom, has given control of the property interests of this country."

Sound familiar?

Best, Greg