Pullman

Examples of Pullman 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 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.
  • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.
  • Railroad workers across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars, and subsequently Wagner Palace cars, onto trains.
  • Within four days, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.

• 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 Labor Wars

  • During the major economic depression of the early 1890s, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages in its factories.
  • 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.

• Depression Politics

  • 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.

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • The most dramatic major strike was the 1894 Pullman Strike which was coordinated effort to shut down the national railroad system.

• The Railroad Strikes

  • 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.
  • Railroad workers across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars, and subsequently Wagner Palace cars, onto trains.
  • Within four days, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.

• Abraham Lincoln's Family

  • In 1897, he succeeded George Pullman as president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, a company he had previously served as counsel and remained affiliated with until his death.

• 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

  • 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 Rise of Unions

  • Two years later, wage cuts at the Pullman Palace Car Company just outside of Chicago led to a strike.