Yes, amen to that, but if you look at the statement of Commander J. W. Bush of the Fourth Brigade, Alabama Division of the United Confederate Veterans, he brands the strikers in very harsh terms, calling them rapists and marauders, etc. The crux of his disagreement with them seems to be the inconvenience and anxiety that their actions have caused the state:

"I fought through the Civil War for four years, and I now command a brigade of twenty-six camps of Confederate veterans, and I believe we can gather enough active veterans to aid in disarming of those men who are causing the whole state so much inconvenience and filling every household with the deepest anxiety. Temporizing with marauders, rapists and incendiaries will do no longer."

But if you think about it, was he not being only true to form, having fought for four years on behalf of a status quo that had oppressed workers of a different persuasion for many years? Bush's eagerness to employ armed force to support the new status quo, i.e., the mine owners in this instance, was essentially no different than employing similar force to put down an uprising of uppity slaves no longer willing to meekly tolerate the conditions under which they worked and lived.

Anyway, that's one possible explanation for his willingness to support worker oppression.