Following the Pullman strike, efforts by employers to obtain anti-union court orders were generally

After the Pullman strike, employers and the government increasingly used court injunctions to restrict union activity, as in the injunction against Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union. Unions had few effective legal protections, and courts often treated organizing tactics such as strikes as unlawful restraints on commerce. So these anti-union orders were generally successful, making “there were no legal protections for unions” the best choice.

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