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The '''Pullman Strike''' of 1894 was the biggest strike in American history.  The upstart American Railway Union (ARU), led by [[Eugene Debs]], was supporting a factory strike in Chicago against the makers of Pullman cars.  The nation was in the midst of a deep depression, the [[Panic of 1893]], and the strike in Chicago was failing. Debs escalated it by having his ARU members refuse to handle trains that carried Pullman cars (which were luxury passenger cars, and also carried the U.S. mail.) The railroads fired the ARU members, the ARU then tried to shut down the national railroad system in July, 1894. It largely succeeded west of Detroit (but failed in the East and South because it had few members there). The federal government under President [[Grover Cleveland]], a [[Bourbon Democrat|conservative Democrat]] went to federal court to get an injunction against Debs and the ARU, noting federal responsibility to move the mails.  They ignored the injunction and Cleveland sent in the U.S. Army to enforce the law, move the mail, and break the strike.  Disorganized violence by strikers against the army and the railroads broke out in many rail centers from Chicago to the West Coast, but the army got the job done and the strike soon ended.

The '''Pullman Strike''' of 1894 was the biggest strike in American history.  The upstart American Railway Union (ARU), led by [[Eugene Debs]], was supporting a factory strike in Chicago against the makers of Pullman cars.  The nation was in the midst of a deep depression, the [[Panic of 1893]], and the strike in Chicago was failing. Debs escalated it by having his ARU members refuse to handle trains that carried Pullman cars (which were luxury passenger cars, and also carried the U.S. mail.) The railroads fired the ARU members, the ARU then tried to shut down the national railroad system in July, 1894. It largely succeeded west of Detroit (but failed in the East and South because it had few members there). The federal government under President [[Grover Cleveland]], a [[Bourbon Democrat|conservative Democrat]] went to federal court to get an injunction against Debs and the ARU, noting federal responsibility to move the mails.  They ignored the injunction and Cleveland sent in the U.S. Army to enforce the law, move the mail, and break the strike.  Disorganized violence by strikers against the army and the railroads broke out in many rail centers from Chicago to the West Coast, but the army got the job done and the strike soon ended.

==Montana==

==Montana==

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Panic of 1893]]

* [[Panic of 1893]]

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[[Category:Gilded Age]]

[[Category:Gilded Age]]

[[Category:Labor Unions]]

[[Category:Labor Unions]]

[[Category:Strikes]]

[[Category:Strikes]]