— Kim KellyThe latter went so far as to direct the Guard to arrest and imprison every striker in the state of Georgia in Fort McPherson, a Civil War–era army base used in World War I as a prisoner-of-war camp; while only about one hundred strikers ended up there, the draconian measure effectively ended picketing activity in the state.
Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.