1. Many strikebreakers were subjected to verbal and physical attacks.

2. Strike-breakers are often despised by their workmates.

3. Strikers attacked the strikebreakers sent in to replace them.

4. It might also start by attempts to prevent the transportation of strikebreakers or goods, and a clash would follow police intervention.

5. Since they are more easily replaced, the employer is more likely to use strikebreakers against them.

6. In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations, directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers.