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Clark Bardman
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George Pullman developed the first Pullman car after spending a very uncomfortable night in a sleeping
car on a trip from New York to Chicago.
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The first Pullman Car was designed to be a luxury railroad car that was a day-coach that turned into a sleeper car at night.
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At first railroads where not interested in this new car as it was higher and
wider than other railcars.
The presidential railroad car
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In 1867, George Pullman incorporated the Pullman Palace
Car Company.
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He expanded his
business to include
dining cars, parlor cars,
private cars as well
as the sleeping
cars.
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George Pullman’s ambitions spread also to developing a safe and clean place for his workers to live.
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The problem was that Pullman The problem was that Pullman
controlled everything controlled everything
in the town in the town
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1893 Depression1893 Depression
Pullman did not allow the residents to own their homes and hired people
to watch the residents for any inappropriate behavior.
To make matters worse, a depression occurred
in the country in 1893-94.
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• The Pullman workers joined this union in the spring of
1894, after George Pullman ignored their pleas
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• The three representatives of the committee who met with George Pullman were laid off.
• 90% of the remaining workers voted to strike on May 11
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• ARU refuses to handle Pullman cars
• The strike extended to encompass all of the 24 rail lines outof Chicago
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• As a result of the boycotts and accompanying strikes, the U.S. mail delivery by the railroad and interstate commerce is affected.
• Federal troops are called in to help because of the mail stoppage.
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• July 1st, injunction against Eugene Debs and American Railway Union
• July 4th, President Cleveland sent federal troops to protect the Pullman factory
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• Federal troops ended the blockade and trains began moving again
• Debs is arrested• Strike officially ends as of
July 12, 1894
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• Was a “landmark in the history of relations between workers and factory owners in the United States” (Laughlin 12)
• The strike proved that a large number of workers would be sympathetic to the plight of other workers to cause an interruption of a major service
• Highlighted the ongoing dispute between states’ rights and federal powers
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Hofstadter, Richard, and Michael Wallace, eds. American Violence: A Documentary History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Print.
Laughlin, Rosemary. The Pullman Strike of 1894: American Labor Comes of Age. Greensboro, North Carolina: 2000. Print.
Picture from slide three:http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock
Picture from slide four from website: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/08200/08259r.jpg
Pictures from slides five and six: http://www.oklahomafilm.org/photos/Museum
Pictures from slide seven:http://explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0b3f4-a_349.jp http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pullman_dining_car_1894.jpg
Picture from slide eight:http://www.pullman-museum.
Picture from slide nine:http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/MASC/masctour/Pullman/burcanjordan.jpg
Picture from slide thirteen:http://www.newberry.org/outspoken/exhibit/objectlist_section1.html