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The Pullman Strike comprised two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression. First came a strike by the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company's factory in Chicago in spring 1894.
Launched at a meeting held in Chicago in February 1893, the ARU won an early victory in a strike on the Great Northern Railroad in the summer of 1894. [1] This successful strike was followed by the bitter 1894 Pullman Strike in which government troops and the power of the judiciary were enlisted against the ARU, ending with the jailing of the ...
July 7, 1894 Chicago, IL Railroad Strike 30 or more estimated Pullman Strike: An attempt by Eugene V. Debs to unionize the Pullman railroad car company in suburban Chicago developed into a strike on May 10, 1894. Other unions were drawn in. On June 26 a national rail strike of 125,000 workers paralyzed traffic in 27 states for weeks.
In 1894 the Pullman Strike in Illinois, as well as this series of unemployed workers' riots on May Day in Cleveland, prompted U.S. President Grover Cleveland to propose a bill that would make a Labor Day a national public holiday. [4]
Coeur d'Alene labor strike; Buffalo switchmen's strike; 1893 287,756 1894 690,044 Pullman Strike; Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894; Great Northern Railway strike; Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894; 1895 407,188 1896 248,838 Leadville miners' strike; 1897 416,154 Lattimer massacre; 1898 263,219 1899 431,889 Weight Strike [7] Coeur d ...
Labor actions have long been a part of U.S. history, continuing to this day with strikes by the UAW and Hollywood actors and writers.
In 1894, Debs became involved in the Pullman Strike, which grew out of a compensation dispute started by the workers who constructed the rail cars made by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The Pullman Company, citing falling revenue after the economic Panic of 1893 , had cut the wages of its factory employees by twenty-eight percent.
In 1894, the U.S. Army intervened during a strike in Chicago to prevent property damage. [20] The Pullman Strike began at the Pullman Company in Chicago after Pullman refused to either lower rent in the company town or raise wages for its workers due to increased economic pressure from the Panic of 1893. [21]