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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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United States Strike Commission: THE PULLMAN STRIKE:ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS ... PULLMAN'S Palace Car Company is in the market at all times to obtain all possible contracts to build cars. Its relations with railroads, its large capital and surplus, its complete and well-located plant and efficient management enable it at...
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www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/voices/curt...
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/voices/curtis/strike.htm
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In 1894, the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike that eventually became the first nationwide workers' strike. Provides history of the event, biography of Union president Eugene Debs, and bibliography. ... The Pullman Strike;
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recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/PullmanStrike.htm
recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/PullmanStrike.htm
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On July 18, Pullman announced it would reopen the shops and hire only persons who would sign a "yellow dog" contract promising never to join a union while a Pullman employee. Thus ended the great Pullman Strike, but there were unexpected aftereffects.
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www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/pullpar.htm
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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
marchand.ucdavis.edu/lessons/HS/Pullman.html
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THE PULLMAN STRIKE ... 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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www.kansasheritage.org/pullman/index.html
www.kansasheritage.org/pullman/index.html
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The Pullman Strike was a disturbing event in Illinois history. It occurred because of the way George Mortimer Pullman, founder and president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, treated his workers. Organized in 1867, the company manufactured sleeping cars and operated them under contract to the railroads.
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www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html
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Within recent public memory lay two major events that led to this unease--the Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman Railroad strike of 1894. These two conflicts brought to the surface the deeper issues at work in an age of industrial progress.
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projects.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html
projects.vassar.edu/1896/strikes.html
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