Pullman Strike (1894)

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:trade_unionist
gptkbp:cause High rents in Pullman company town
Wage cuts at Pullman Company
gptkbp:endDate July 20, 1894
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pullman Strike (1894)
gptkbp:involves over 250,000 workers
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Eugene_V._Debs
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Pullman,_Chicago,_Illinois
gptkbp:notableCompany gptkb:Pullman_Company
railroads across the United States
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:President_Grover_Cleveland
railroad companies
Attorney General Richard Olney
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:American_Railway_Union
gptkbp:relatedTo labor movement in the United States
railroad history
history of Chicago
gptkbp:resultedIn gptkb:arrest_of_Eugene_V._Debs
violence and deaths
use of federal troops
intervention by federal government
decline of American Railway Union
gptkbp:significance major turning point in US labor history
led to Labor Day becoming a federal holiday
gptkbp:startDate May 11, 1894
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:American_railroads
gptkb:Pullman,_Chicago,_Illinois,_United_States
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6