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Also, the great machinist strike had been broken. Two hundred thousand machinists, along with their five hundred thousand allies in the metalworking trades, had been defeated in as bloody a strike as had ever marred the United States. Pitched battles had been fought with the small armies of armed strike breakers3 put in the field by the employers associations; the Black Hundreds, appearing in scores of wide scattered places, had destroyed property; and, in consequence, a hundred thousand regular soldiers.