The Railroad Trainmen blamed the bus driver, calling him a strikebreaker. Houston Police had put former Texas lawman Frank Hamer on permanent payroll as strikebreaker. He replied that he was no strikebreaker. Someone in the mob shot and killed a strikebreaker. Brugmann retained a few management staff and hired strikebreaker replacements. One evening, Rollie starts a fight with a strikebreaker and is shot. One strikebreaker was reportedly beaten in Fort Worth. One striking miner, Lawrence Jones, was shot and killed by a Strikebreaker. On 30 August 1917, a striker was shot and killed by strikebreaker. A strikebreaker, Alfred Green, was also shot whilst driving a train from Sydney to Wollongong. "Strikebreaker" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.