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Pullman Steel Strike

Pullman Palace Car Company workers initiated a boycott of Pullman train cars through the American Railway Union. The boycott, observed by 150,000 members of the American Railway Union, stopped rail traffic in and out of Chicago and affected rail traffic across the country. The US Attorney General issued an injunction against the striking workers, and President Grover Cleveland sent federal forces to protect trains being run by non-union strikebreakers. Pro-union mobs destroyed trains and buildings, leading to the jailing of union and strike...

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs was a railway employee who worked to create the American Railway Union, an industrial union for railway workers. In 1893, the ARU orchestrated the Pullman car boycott in 1894, which led to Debs' arrest and the end of the ARU. Debs later served as a leader of the Socialist Party of America.