 After the incident at Grabow suspected union workers were fired.There were no laws to protect unions such as the Erdman Act for interstate railroad workers.The cases of Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897), and the landmark case of Lochner v. New York (1905), called the Lochner era that did acknowledge that states have certain "police powers", but effectively took away a lot of state control, resulting in more company allowed controls.