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The most famous and farreaching labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest, the Pullman Strike began May 11, 1894, with a walkout by Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers after negotiations over declining wages failed.
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The Pullman Strike of 1894 was the first national strike in United States history. Before coming to an end, it involved over 150,000 persons and twenty-seven states and territories and would paralyze the nations railway system.
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LESSON PLANS JONATHAN BASSETT The Pullman Strike of 1894 eorge Pullman made a fortune by constructing luxury sleeping cars for the railroads as they quickly spanned the country in the post-Civil War era.
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The nation's newspapers, were objective as always. Chicago Tribune headlines from June 31,1894 described the events of the Pullman Strike thusly:
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The 1894 Pullman Strike was one of the most significant labor disruptions in the latter 19th century. ... Causes of the Pullman Strike ... The Pullman Strike forced Americans to confront the war between labor and capital. With the exception of some labor leaders like Samuel Gompers, unionists were viewed as anathema and a...
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The Pullman Strike of 1894: American Labor Comes of Age (Great Events) (Library Binding) ... The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval (Phoenix Books); $23.94; ... The Pullman Strike; $14.00;
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Your task in this documentary problem is to write an account of the Pullman strike of 1894 with attention to the background of the Pullman community. You need not carry the account beyond the point at-which the local strike expanded to become a national boycott.
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marchand.ucdavis.edu/lessons/HS/Pullman.html
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United States Strike Commission: THE PULLMAN STRIKE:ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS ... The cut in wages during this period [September1893 - May 1894] averaged about 25 per cent....
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Frustrated by this as well as by various employment practices, workers organized into unions according to their particular trades (the usual practice), and these various unions repeatedly struck Pullman Company in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The May 1894 strike was the first that was companywide.
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