1998年7月20日 · Pullman Strike, in U.S. history, railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest in June and July of 1894. The federal government’s response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike.

2019年8月27日 · In July 1894, President Grover Cleveland finally signed into law legislation creating a national Labor Day holiday in early September—even as federal troops in Chicago brutally crushed a strike...

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 …

Pullman workers, who had formed a grievance committee to negotiate with the company, were getting nowhere, and, though ARU leadership advised against it, a strike broke out at the Pullman factories on May 11,1894.

George M. Pullman refused to meet with workers to hear their requests for higher wages, lower rents, and better working conditions. In protest, Pullman workers walked off the job on May 11, 1894. The American Railway Union agreed to assist Pullman workers.

2019年8月12日 · The Pullman Strike of 1894 was a milestone in American labor history, as the widespread strike by railroad workers brought business to a standstill across large parts of the nation until the federal government took unprecedented action to end the strike.

In the late spring of 1894, over four thousand workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company went out on strike. The company seemed an unlikely place for a strike, as its workers inhabited the well-appointed company town of Pullman, located near Chicago, Illinois.

A delegation of workers tried to meet with Pullman to share their complaints about low pay and poor working conditions, but he refused to meet with the workers and ordered them fired. The delegation then voted to strike, and Pullman workers walked off the job on May 11, 1894.

2018年6月11日 · PULLMAN STRIKE. The Pullman Strike of 1894 was one of the most influential events in the history of U.S. labor. What began as a walkout by railroad workers in the company town of Pullman, Illinois, escalated into the country's first national strike.

2021年12月20日 · The Pullman strike, backed by the American Railways Union, effectively shut down the American railroad from May through July because the Pullman Company had a near-monopoly on sleeper cars west of Chicago.