I'm actually enjoying that Battle of Blair Mountain article because I happen to be evicting a roommate in real life.
He never paid, so he gets the boot, he has no right to steal property. There's plenty of homeless shelters in the state I live where he can flop in. I really don't care. When someone personally stiffs you for a rent bill, it's really hard to be compassionate, especially when they flash money in your face before heading of to their drug supplier to blow it.
So happens when you declare that a place you rent is yours and you don't have to pay nuffin, that's theft and trespassing, and a reason to call the law like they did at Blair Mountain. When you start shooting the law, you're a traitor. When you try to capture the town government by force, that's insurrection.
There's a reason why the Mob went into the business of labor unions, and it was definitely as a cover to do similar criminal activities while claiming to be "oppressed"
Yo! Joey...pay the man so we can protect yous...from who? You don't wanna know. Nice protection racket the labor unions were in the glory days of crony capitalism.