over powerful government and it was the unions who who stood up against pinochet for example done in chile so and tried to stand up against hitler and may second one nine hundred thirty three hitler perhaps apocryphally said we must close union cough ases confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison we must reduce workers' salaries and take away their right to strike is a picture of the essay seizing a union building this is from the book richard by richard evans the coming of the third reich hitler began suppressing the trade unions along with communists and social democrats in february thirty three part of his rise to power they would attack and ransacked offices steal equipment beat up and imprison members usually those leadership roles trade union officials in leadership roles where the sent to concentration camps or killed outright both franco and mussolini to be exact same things as did pinochet as did i mean you the list goes on and on and now you've got middle east guys who are who and have been for some time going after unions so you know at a certain point isn't i