Some crews had been won over and led away, some windows broken, some jeering and yelling done; but in no more than five or six instances had men been seriously injured.

These by crowds whose acts the leaders disclaimed.
Idleness, however, and the sight of the company, backed by the police, triumphing, angered the men.

They saw that each day more cars were going on, each day more declarations were being made by the company officials that the effective opposition of the strikers was broken.

This put desperate thoughts in the minds of the men.

Peaceful methods meant, they saw, that the companies would soon run all their cars and those who had complained would be forgotten.