Martin J. Elliott

American Railway Union director and Eugene V. Debs co-defendant in the federal contempt prosecution following the 1894 Pullman Strike, when President Cleveland invoked the Insurrection Act and deployed federal troops to break the boycott of Pullman cars. All ARU directors were enjoined under Olney's sweeping federal injunction from any further communication that might continue the strike; when they continued to coordinate the union's defense, they were convicted of criminal contempt and jailed for three months at Woodstock (McHenry County) jail alongside Debs. ARU director.