Pullman Strike

CTL-E-0028 · Event

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Railroad and labor uprising

The record

• Year: 1894

Sources

• https://home.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/the-pullman-story-part-2.htm (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

The Pullman Strike broke out at the Pullman factories in Chicago on May 11, 1894; the American Railway Union's boycott of Pullman cars crippled rail traffic nationwide; a federal injunction and federal troops were deployed, and the boycott dissolved by mid-July 1894 (National Park Service, tier 1).

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