Original sentence: Labor history in the United States dates from around 1636 with the earliest worker demands for better working conditions largely beginning in the mid-19th century
Edited sentence: A “citizens’ alliance” of local businessmen who share the view of the company mobilizes to drive the union out of the area.As soon as a few minor disturbances mar the picket lines, the governor sends in the National Guard.Author Ronald Filipelli described the typical response of the era by companies faced with labor strife in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries:pp.Labor history in the United States dates from around 1636 with the earliest worker demands for better working conditions.Local law enforcement officials swear in deputies loyal to the companies, sometimes several thousand.The companies add to this gathering army by contracting with a detective agency to supply company guards.The companies turn to the courts for relief and secure an injunction forbidding picketing, mass demonstrations or any interference with company operations.The injunction and arrests bring even more oppression to the workers.The president of the detective agency boasts that the result will be a “triumph for law and order” and the company owners, thus providing excellent advertising for the agency.The soldiers are clearly there with serious intentions and are heavily armed.The strikebreaking agency’s main task is to recruit replacements for the strikers and protect them.Those who defy it are arrested