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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The SDP had been organized in 1898 by veterans of the Pullman strike of the American Railway Union, led by Debs , and was largely composed of American-born workers.
Eugene Debs led a nation-wide strike in support of the Pullman workers, but federal troops crushed the strike.
Pullman Strike occurs after Pullman refuses to meet with committee of workers to discuss grievances.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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Debs) struck a Pullman Car manufacturing plant near Chicago, 125,000 railroad workers go out on sympathy strike.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It was Grover Cleveland who brought out the troops in 1894 to break the Pullman Strike.
The Pullman Strike of 1894.
The Pullman workers joined the ARU, and Debs became the leader of the Pullman strike.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Within recent public memory lay two major events that led to this unease--the Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman Railroad strike of 1894.
One strike in particular, the Pullman strike of 1894, was especially important in American perceptions of "the labor problem" of the time.
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