During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the governor of Illinois decried President Grover Cleveland’s move to call in the National Guard ...

To get to know the Pullman strike and how it radically changed America, you first need to know a little about the Chicago sleeping-car magnate George M. Pullman.

Many people point to the Pullman Palace Car Co. strike in Chicago as a pivotal point in America’s labor history and the creation of Labor Day as a federal holiday. In 1893, during a nationwide ...

Strike Feared. Skip to content Skip to site index. Search & Section Navigation. ... TROUBLE FEARED AT PULLMAN.; A STRIKE THREATENED IN THE EVENT OF WAGES BEING REDUCED. Share full article. Sept ...

The Pullman Strike, 1894. The Pullman Strike was a solidarity strike with the factory workers who manufactured Pullman Palace train cars. Their boss, George Pullman, ...

“Angry Pullman workers walked out in May 1894, and the following month, the American Railway Union and its leader, Eugene V. Debs, declared a sympathy boycott of all trains using Pullman cars ...

There are hundreds if not tens of thousands of historical examples of the plight of organized labor, radical and otherwise. Some are more celebrated than others such as the Pullman Strike of 1894 ...

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs. Eugene V. Debs organized the Pullman Strike in 1894, a nationwide protest that resulted in federal labor laws to protect workers.