They were eventually supplied by the Government with free transportation to their homes.
Of more serious import than these marchings and campings, as evidence of popular unrest, were the activities of organized labor which now began to attract public attention.

The Knights of Labor were declining in numbers and influence.

The attempt, which their national officers made in January, 1894, to get out an injunction to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from making bond sales really facilitated Carlisle's effort by obtaining judicial sanction for the issue.

Labor disturbances now followed in quick succession.

In April, there was a strike on the Great Northern Railroad, which for a long time almost stopped traffic between St.Paul and Seattle.