Why did the Pullman and Homestead strikes decrease public support for unions? (please give a detailed explanation)

Explanation:

By involving as many as 250,000 railroad workers on some 20 railroads, the Pullman Strike demonstrated the power of the labour movement. However, in precipitating the use of an injunction to break the strike, it opened the door to greater court involvement in limiting the effectiveness of strikes.

As in the Homestead and Pullman strikes, government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often sided with management and against unions. ... In the Great Depression, the federal government enacted provisions on behalf of workers and labor unions.

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