The first trouble instigated by the deputy marshals was the signal for
the Federal Court injunctions, and they came like a succession of
lightning flashes.
Next, the general offices of the American Railway Union were sacked and
put under guard and communication destroyed. (Later Judge Grosscup
rebuked the Federal satraps who committed this outrageous crime, but he
did not pretend to bring them to justice.)
Next, the leaders of the strike were arrested, not for crime, but for
alleged violation of an injunction.
Next, they were brought into court, denied trial by jury, pronounced
guilty by the same judge who had issued the injunction, and sent to jail
for from three to six months.