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The _ Times _ the next morning with flaring headlines announced that the Governor had decided to send troops to the Wahoo Valley to protect the property in the mines and mills for the rightful owners and to prevent any further incendiary speaking and rioting such as had disgraced Market Street the day before . In an editorial the Governor was advised to proclaim martial law , as only the strictest repression would prevent the rise of anarchy and open rebellion to the authorities . The troops came on the early morning trains , and filed into the sheds occupied by the workmen before the strike . The young militiamen immediately began pervading South Harvey , Foley and Magnus , and when the strikers lined up before the gates and doors of their former working places at seven o'clock that morning they met a brown line of youths -- devil-may-care young fellows out for a lark , who liked to prod the workmen with their bayonets and who laughingly ordered the strikers to stop trying to keep the strike-breakers from going to work . The strikers were bound by their pledges to the Trades Council not to touch the strike-breakers under any circumstances . The strikers -- white-badged and earnest-faced -- made their campaign by lining up five on each side of a walk or path through which the strike-breakers would have to pass to their work , and crying : `` Help us , and we 'll help you . Do n't scab on us -- keep out of the works , and we 'll see that you are provided for .