They spoke of doing justice themselves to the anarchists.
In the mean time the factory workers remained hostile or indifferent to violent action.

They were threatened, as a result of the decline of business, with a likelihood of losing their work, or even a lock-out in all the factories.

The Federation of Trade Unions proposed a general strike as the most powerful means of influencing the employers, and the best aid that could be given to the revolutionists, but all the trades with the exception of the gliders refused to cease work.
The police made numerous arrests.

Troops summoned from all parts of the National Federation protected the offices of the Trusts, the houses of the multi-millionaires, the public halls, the banks, and the big shops.
A fortnight passed without a single explosion, and it was concluded that the dynamitards, in all probability but a handful of persons, perhaps even Still fewer, had all been killed or captured, or that they were in hiding, or had taken flight.

Confidence returned; it returned at first among the poorer classes.