How did employers respond to the growth of labor unions?

1. Lockout: Closing the factory to break a labor movement before it could get organized

2. Blacklists: Names of prounion workers circulated among employers

3. Yellow-dog contracts: Workers being told, as a condition for employment, that they must sign and agreement not to join a union

4. Calling in private guards or state militia

5. obtaining court injunctions against strikes

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