Pullman

(noun)

One of the nation's first company towns, established by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The town, within Chicago, was entirely company-owned.

Related Terms

  • mill town
  • company town

Examples of Pullman in the following topics:

  • The Pullman Strike

    • The Pullman Strike began in 1894 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to wage cuts.
    • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
    • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.
    • Railroad workers across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars, and subsequently Wagner Palace cars, onto trains.
    • Within four days, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.
  • Mill Towns and Company Towns

    • One of the first company towns in the United States was Pullman, Chicago, developed in the 1880s just outside the Chicago city limits.
    • Employees were required to live in Pullman, despite the fact that cheaper rentals could be found in nearby communities.
    • In 1898 the Illinois Supreme Court required Pullman to dissolve their ownership of the town.
  • The Labor Wars

    • During the major economic depression of the early 1890s, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages in its factories.
    • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott of all Pullman cars on all railroads .
    • ARU members across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars onto trains.
    • Within four days, 125,000 workers on twenty-nine railroads had people quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.
    • The seven officers of the ARU were jailed following the suppression of the 1894 Pullman strike: Rogers, Elliott, Keliher, Hogan, Burns, Goodwin, and Debs.
  • Depression Politics

    • Debs led a nationwide railroad strike, called the Pullman Strike.
    • The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
    • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
  • Labor and Domestic Tensions

    • The most dramatic major strike was the 1894 Pullman Strike which was coordinated effort to shut down the national railroad system.
  • The Railroad Strikes

    • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11, when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
    • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott: Union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
    • The strike effectively shut down production in the Pullman factories and led to a lockout.
    • Railroad workers across the nation refused to switch Pullman cars, and subsequently Wagner Palace cars, onto trains.
    • Within four days, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Family

    • In 1897, he succeeded George Pullman as president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, a company he had previously served as counsel and remained affiliated with until his death.
  • Labor Interest Groups

    • The Pullman's union and the United Farm Workers unions are examples of unions that came together to advocate for the economic interests of African-American and latino workers.
  • Coxey's Army

    • While the protesters never made it to the capital, the military intervention they provoked proved to be a rehearsal for the federal force that broke the Pullman Strike later that year.
  • Humor

    • One February morning in the mid-1980s, I met a Nigerian graduate student who'd just gotten off a plane from Lagos and made his way to Pullman, Washington.
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