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After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. (U of Illinois Press, 2003). Laughlin, Rosemary. The Pullman strike of 1894 (2006) online, for high schools; Lindsey, Almont. The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943. online, a standard history ...
The committee recommended that an ultimatum be delivered that unless the Pullman Company began arbitration within 5 days, a boycott of railroad workers should be launched under which no member of the ARU would handle a train to which Pullman cars were attached. [15] After discussion this proposal was accepted by majority vote of the convention ...
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] Since the Pullman Company was a railroad car company, this only increased the difficulty of acquiring rolling stock.
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.
That was the same year that workers for the Pullman Palace Car Company went on strike after the railcar-maker cut wages without reducing rent in the company-owned town where workers lived near ...
Federal troops end the railroad blockades by the American Railway Union, 1894 – During the Pullman Strike, the American Railway Union (ARU), out of union solidarity, called out its members according to the principle of industrial unionism. Their actions in blocking the movement of railroad trains were illegal but successful, until twenty ...
The first Monday of September the United States celebrates Labor Day. But how did the holiday come to be?
Pullman strikers outside Arcade Building in Pullman, Chicago. The Illinois National Guard can be seen guarding the building during the Pullman Railroad Strike in 1894. 11 May – 10 July 1894 (United States) Pullman Strike: A nation-wide strike against the Pullman Company begins with a wildcat walkout [20] on 11 May after wages are drastically ...