Modern visitors to the scene of this event are encouraged to have lunch at the Florence hotel.
Modern visitors to the scene of this event are encouraged to have lunch at the Florence hotel. A group called the "General Managers Association" organized for the purpose of ending this event, and this event was promoted by a newspaper called "The Call". Much of this event took place in the town of Blue Island, a hotbed of support for the (*) ARU. Injunctions against this event were sought by Attorney General Richard Olney, but it would not end until, over the objections of Governor John Altgeld, federal troops were sent in by President Cleveland. Launching the career of Eugene Debs, for ten points name this strike of rail car workers in Chicago.
Modern visitors to the scene of this event are encouraged to have lunch at the Florence hotel.
{Pullman Strike}