chicago strike, 1894

Explores the conflict between labor and capital in late nineteenth-century America through an examination of union organizer Eugene V. Debs and his instigation of the worker strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago.

Traces the history of the unsuccessful but influential strike in which the American Railroad Union supported the employees of the Pullman Company.

Photographs and text discuss the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.

Discusses the labor strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois in 1894, and the federal government's use of force to keep the railroads operating and to crush the striking workers.