Pullman+Strike

The Pullman Strike,also known as the Chicago Strike, was one of the most significant labor disruptions in the 19th century.It was also one of the first national strikes in the United States. The strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads in the United States. It begin, in Pullman Illinois on May 11th. During the economic panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut salaries and fired union representatives. The American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V. Debs, called for a boycott on all Pullman Railway Cars. Employees refused to work. In sympathy, the ARU refused to haul railroad cars made by the company. The strike also interfered with mail trains.The strike was broken up by the United States Marshals.Debs and three union leaders were then arrested for interferring with U.S. mail.Debs was released after six months,when he was released his union he had created no longer existed.People went back to their daily lives and received the same wages. Local leaders were not rehired.The results of the strike was the unified group did not recieve lowered wages and were just left with the same and even lower wages. The federal troops sent a message to the U.S workers that would not change until later years. The earth is for all the people. That is the demand. The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand. The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand. The elimination of rent, interest, profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people. That is the demand. Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand. The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, or ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime -- the birth of freedom, the dawn of Brotherhood, the beginning of MAN. That is the demand. BY EUGENE V. DEBS

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