 The workers who are under the "copper collar" are referred to as "snakes" and the Anaconda Company is referred to as an "ogre".The ""copper collar"" symbolized different things to different people but "the Anaconda Company used the tactics of an authoritarian state to quash a legitimate labor movement within its corporate fiefdom.That the press, an elemental part of democracy, was used in the assault marks a black period in the history of American journalism."