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Pullman Strike

In Chicago, Illinois on May 11, 1894, a strike broke out because workers of thePullman Palace Car Company got their wages cut by 28%. People even started to boycott riding trains with Pullman cars on it. Afterwards, there was supposedly a peaceful gathering nut workers were enraged and started putting buildings on fire and derailed a locomotive. United States Marshals and 12,000 United States Army troops sent by President Grover broke up the strike. President Grover said that the strike was interfering with the U.S mail. At the end, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded and an estimated 6,000 rail workers did $340,000 worth of property damage. Information provided by: http://www.thisdayincivilrightshistory.com/months/images/pullman_strike.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike