Pullman Strike

Examples of Pullman Strike in the following topics:

• The Pullman Strike

  • The Pullman Strike began in 1894 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to wage cuts.
  • The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroad companies that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott—union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
  • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • An especially violent strike came during the economic depression of the 1870s, as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, lasted 45 days and resulted in damages to railroad property.
  • The strike collapsed when President Rutherford B.
  • The most dramatic major strike was the 1894 Pullman Strike which was coordinated effort to shut down the national railroad system.
  • The strike was led by the upstart American Railway Union led by Eugene V.
  • The ARU vanished, and the traditional railroad brotherhoods survived but avoided strikes.

• Depression Politics

  • Immediately after the coal strike concluded, Eugene V.
  • Debs led a nationwide railroad strike, called the Pullman Strike.
  • The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
  • During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.

• The Labor Wars

  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott of all Pullman cars on all railroads .
  • ARU members across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars onto trains.
  • Within four days, 125,000 workers on twenty-nine railroads had people quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.
  • The seven officers of the ARU were jailed following the suppression of the 1894 Pullman strike: Rogers, Elliott, Keliher, Hogan, Burns, Goodwin, and Debs.
  • 1894 strike by the American Railway Union.

• The Railroad Strikes

  • The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroad companies that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11, when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott: Union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
  • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.
  • Within four days, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.

• Coxey's Army

  • While the protesters never made it to the capital, the military intervention they provoked proved to be a rehearsal for the federal force that broke the Pullman Strike later that year.

• Workers Organize

  • The first of these was the Great Railroad Strike in 1877, when rail workers across the nation went on strike in response to a 10-percent pay cut by owners.
  • Attempts to break the strike led to bloody uprisings in several cities.
  • Two years later, wage cuts at the Pullman Palace Car Company led to a strike, which, with the support of the American Railway Union , soon brought the nation's railway industry to a halt.
  • The strike collapsed, as did the ARU.
  • The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers.

• The Rise of Unions

  • In the Great Railroad Strike in 1877, railroad workers across the nation went on strike in response to a 10 percent pay cut.
  • Attempts to break the strike led to bloody uprisings in several cities.
  • Nonunion workers were hired and the strike was broken.
  • Two years later, wage cuts at the Pullman Palace Car Company just outside of Chicago led to a strike.
  • The strike collapsed, as did the American Railway Union.

• Mill Towns and Company Towns

  • One of the first company towns in the United States was Pullman, Chicago, developed in the 1880s just outside the Chicago city limits.
  • Employees were required to live in Pullman, despite the fact that cheaper rentals could be found in nearby communities.
  • In 1898 the Illinois Supreme Court required Pullman to dissolve their ownership of the town.

• The New Immigrants on Strike

  • Two important labor strikes led by immigrant groups were the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 and the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912.
  • The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 (also known as the "Uprising of the 20,000") was a labor strike primarily involving Jewish women working in New York shirtwaist factories.
  • The successful strike marked an important milestone for the American labor movement.
  • The Lawrence Textile Strike (also referred to as "Bread and Roses") was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
  • Identify key strikes that advanced the cause of labor in twentieth-century America