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Debs was kept 18 months in the jurisdiction of the court by
postponements and various pretexts, calculated to prevent him from
re-organizing the A. R. U., and when finally released, the railroad
corporations put detectives on his track and for two years they followed
him, and whenever he organized the men they were discharged, as were
many who even recognized him or who were suspected of having any
sympathy with his work or for him personally. He saw that it was vain
and hopeless to reorganize the A. R. U. and that all the influence the
corporations could combine were opposing it.