On the top it reads: 1894 PULLMAN STRIKE 1994
And on the bottom it says: 100 YEARS OF RAILROAD SOLIDARITY
In 1894, the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company launched a strike which shook the entire nation. It began in the company town of Pullman, Illnois when owner George Pullman, in the midst of a depression, lowered his workers wages but refused to lower their rents. After their grievances failed, they asked the American Railway Union (ARU), a union which tried to unite all railway workers headed by Eugene V. Debs, for help. On June 26, 1894, the ARU began a boycott of Pullman cars, stopping most train traffic out of Chicago. The strike quickly spread across the country. At it's peak, 260,000 railroad workers were on strike. President Cleveland and his Attorney General issued blanket injunctions to crush the strike, but this only made the strikers more determined. Trains were overturned and train yards burned. The President put Chicago under virtual martial law. The workers gave Pullman two days, July 10, to arbitrate or face a general strike. On July 11, Debs and other strike leaders were arrested and the strike was declared a failure by the media. With the strikes momentum broken, Pullman began to rehire under the protection of the militia. Although the strike was defeated by an alliance of industry and government, the workers showed that they could bring a country to a standstill by their united action.

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