The claim of the document regarding the Pullman Strike highlights the conflict between labor workers and the Pullman Palace Car Company, emphasizing the social and economic tensions stemming from wage cuts following the Panic of 1893. It illustrates the union's response to the company's actions, particularly the call for a boycott by Eugene V. Debs, and details the government's intervention to suppress the strike through legal and military means. The document underscores the struggle between labor rights and corporate interests, and the subsequent violent outcomes of the confrontation.
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DOCUMENT F: “Pullman Strike”
The Pullman Strike (May–July 1894) was a violent confrontation between railroad workers and the Pullman Palace Car Company of Illinois. It tied up rail traffic across the United States before it was halted by federal injunction. In the wake of the Panic of 1893, the Pullman Company cut wages, but it did not lower rents or other charges to employees in the company town of Pullman, now part of Chicago. When representatives of the American Railway Union protested (May 11), they were fired. Eugene V. Debs, the head of the union, then called for (June 26) a boycott of all Pullman cars. On July 2, Att. Gen. Richard Olney obtained a court injunction to halt the strike. Federal troops arrived in Chicago two days later. Rioting broke out, and several strikers were killed, but by July 10 the strike had been broken. Debs and other top union officials were jailed for disobeying the injunction.
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