During the Panic of 1890, Pullman Palace Car Company had to cut wages.This made many workers complained about it, but still Pullman refused to make them higher or to lower rents. This created the boycott. Many of the workers that worked for Pullman joined the ARU (American Railroad Union) to support their decision to boycott. June 26, 1894 the boycott had started,125,000 from Pullmans company joined to this boycott. The railroads soon started hiring Replacement workers.
Nearly a year later on June 29, 1895 Eugene V. Dubs called for a meeting in Blue Island, Illinois. This meeting did not go well as you could say. After the meeting groups of people went and set fire to a locomotive and buildings.
This strike affected hundreds of cities and countries across the nation. Most Railroad works were well skilled with Engineering skills, firemen, conductors. The workers from Pullman did not have these skills.
In the after math of everything, Clarence Darrow was Eugene Debs representative in his trial. He was charged with conspiracy, but they were dropped. He was though convicted with violating the Cort injunction and was sent to prison for 6 months. There was talk about Debs being a socialist once he was sent to prison, but once he was released in 1895 we found it was true. He was then the leader or the socialist figure in America.
My thought on all of this is I think the workers did goo d on sticking up for what they believed in. I mean it must have been a hassle for everyone else. I mean, if that's what they believe in let them voice their opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/index.html
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=fgX0PW0ij_w
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Good job overall!