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Federal Troops in Chicago on Labor Day

Caught in the Panic of 1893, The Pullman Palace Car Co. company was experiencing the effects of a nationwide economic depression. Among other issues, the absence of democracy in company towns where its workers lived, mass firings, and 20-30% wage cuts sparked the 1984 Pullman Strikes. An estimated quarter million people in 27 states participated in the strike that paralyzed railroads across the nation. On July 3 1984, despite the Illinois governor's wire calling the action "unjustifiable," President Grover Cleveland ordered Federal troops to enter Chicago and break the strike, citing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as well as disruption of Federal Mail. A federal injunction prevented union leaders, who had been trying to prevent violence, from communicating with their subordinates. On July 7 national guardsmen, after having been assaulted, fired into a mob, killing many workers. By the end of the conflict, over 80 were dead or wounded, with an estimated $80 Million in damage. By then, the Pullman workers had also lost the sympathy of the public; the sheer size and ferocity of the disturbances had inspired anxiety among many people. In response to the Pullman Strikes, legislation that had been sitting in the senate without debate for ten months was rushed unanimously through both houses of Congress, and Grover Cleveland approved Labor Day as an official Federal Holiday on June 28, 1984, just a week before ordering Federal Troops into Chicago. Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike
John R. Commons; et al. (1918). History of Labour in the United States. Vol. 2. Macmillan. p. 502.
"Chapter 20 Dissent, Depression, and War: 1890–1900". The American Promise: A History of the United States
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