The Pullman Strike of 1894: Turning Point for American Labor

George Pullman is not always considered a cruel boss. George Pullman started to believe that anyone who works hard can succeed. But as his career progressed, he pushed too much into this idea and strive to make employees treat their company like slaves. The origin of Pullman strikes has many factors. Pullman's strike, where George Pullman and employee company treatment, Pullman Town of Illinois state according to their treatment, other strikes caused Pullman's misfortune and their reactions.

An epoch-making event in the history of the American labor union was the strike of 1894 against Pullman Pullman Palace Motor Company of Pullman, Illinois. The company is owned by George Pullman (1831-1897) and manufactures and operates high-end rail passenger cars. Pullman built a small town called his name near Chicago and its population was about 12,000 people. He borrowed a modest house for the factory manager for the workers and the big workshop and built the big hotels and tourists who lived there when in town. He built a church and borrowed a church alternately to another denomination in order to serve on Sunday. In Pullman's view, this is a model town.

In 1894, with the support of the organizers of the American Railway Coalition and the Socialist Party, Pullman workers organized a strike aimed at securing higher wages. The strike eventually replaced the riot. This was called Pullman Strike. Immediately after Pullman Strike, Lawrence McGann advocated the creation of a worker's holiday and wrote as follows. Emphasize the equality and dignity of workers and set a public holiday every year for the benefit of workers. For the public, nothing is as important as keeping the noble work. Workers will be faithful and faithful citizens as long as they feel that they have a glorious useful place in the political system. . . For the benefit of labor, one day of the year can not be a statutory holiday of the people, so there is no real objection. . . The workers should be one of them, especially one day of the year. Their employers will not lose nothing for this.