> Violence didn’t bring us the weekend.

Violence definitely happened in the US labor movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass

Ford hardly invented the weekend, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History

"The present-day concept of the relatively longer "week-end" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century... In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a predecessor of today’s AFL-CIO, called for all workers to have eight-hour days by May 1, 1886, playing a crucial role in the push for a five-day workweek."