Pullman Palace Car strike<\/a> in Chicago. But this was more than just the workers on the train cars not reporting for duty.<\/p>\nThe American Railway Union went so far as to refuse to run trains that had any Pullman cars, switch Pullman cars and there were even some violent events that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to trains (inflated to over $8M in 2010 dollars).<\/p>\n
President Grover Cleveland sent federal marshalls and 12,000 US Army troops to stop the strike after U.S. Mail service started experiencing interruptions. 12 strikers were killed, 57 were wounded.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, President Cleveland was quick to reconcile with the labor unions and very quickly proposed legislation declaring the first Tuesday of the month a federal holiday: Labor Day. The federal holiday was established a mere 6 days after the end of the Pullman Strike in July 1894.<\/p>\n
Enjoy the holiday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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