This includes, not merely the actual loss of working time, it includes police and militia, private armies of gunmen, and great secret service agencies, whose total income runs up into hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
"You know what the working-men did there to the slimy curs, the gunmen, and the stool-pigeons of the capitalistic class.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
One of the vice presidents of the company took us riding and to see his country home, all the way out talking up Houston, and occasionally giving the old man a little peck about Chicago lawlessness, racketeers and gunmen.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett