The correct answer is C-the company rehiring workers who withdrew from other unions.
Unfortunately, although the strike was even more effective than Eugene V. Debs had hoped for, it met with fierce opposition from the federal government and the General Managers’ Association (the association of railroad executives and owners). Due to this opposition, the strikers became enraged and violence ensued. The federal government sent the military to suppress the strikers and Eugene V. Debs was arrested, judged and sentenced to prison along with other ARU leaders.
The workers were re-hired under the express condition that they would never join an union in the future.
