Following the Pullman Strike, companies appealing to the courts to issue orders against unions were usually

After the Pullman Strike, courts often granted employers’ requests for injunctions restricting union activity. In the Pullman case, a federal injunction was used to stop the strike, and Eugene V. Debs was jailed for violating it. This shows that unions lacked effective legal protection from government action, making “successful because the federal government would not recognize legal protections for unions” the best choice.

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