pullman strike

     

The Pullman Strike occurre when 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers reacted to a 28% wage cut by going on a wildcat strike in Illinois on May 11, 1894, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.

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  • In 1894 Miles went to Chicago to stop the riots caused by this railroad workers strike
  • Railway workers' salaries were cut but rents in the company towns were not, bringing on this strike in 1894

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