America’s first model industrial town has deep ties to the nation’s first major rail strike — the Pullman Strike of 1894 — which led to the creation of our national Labor Day holiday. In the 1920s, ...

The Pullman Strike took place in 1894, during the months of May to July, when some 250,000 factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Chicago walked off the job. The workers had been ...

After leading the American Railway Union in a confrontation with federal troops sent to break up the Pullman strike of 1894, Debs was jailed for six months for contempt of court. It was then that ...

Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He holds a special place in American history ...

When the workers of the Pullman Railway Company went on strike in 1894, Darrow resigned his job to defend them against the railroad. Over the next few years, he defended strikers, labor leaders ...

Corrothers-Tucker had married a Pullman porter and was so active ... company’s first taste of collective organizing: In 1894, employees backed by the all-white American Railway Union initiated a ...

He became a railroad worker and founded the American Railway Union, then helped lead Chicago’s 1894 Pullman strike, known as ...

The chatter has gotten so loud over the last few days that Lewis Pullman was asked about it in a conversation with Collider. The actor responded honestly, saying: I’ve heard about the six-finger ...

LEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in her home near Pullman as a homicide. The Allegan County Sheriff’s Office said deputies ...

The strike could last weeks — or months. If a strike were resolved within a few weeks, consumers probably wouldn’t notice any major shortages of retail goods. But a strike that persists for ...

By 1894, 32 states had adopted the ... In May that year, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives ...