11 Mai 1894 Jahr - The Pullman Company Strike

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Strikes continued in other industries, however. During the panic of 1893 and the economic depression that followed, the
Pullman company laid off more than 3,000 of its 5,800 employees and cut the
wages of the rest by 25 to 50 percent, without cutting the cost of its employee
housing. After paying their rent, many workers took home less than $6 a week. A
strike was called in the spring of 1894, when the economy improved and the
Pullman company failed to restore wages or decrease rents. Eugene Debs asked for
arbitration, but Pullman refused to negotiate with the strikers. So the ARU began
boycotting Pullman trains.
After Pullman hired strikebreakers, the strike turned violent, and President
Grover Cleveland sent in federal troops. In the bitter aftermath, Debs was jailed.
Pullman fired most of the strikers, and the railroads blacklisted many others, so
they could never again get railroad jobs.

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