The Strike
During a severe depression (called panic of 1893), the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for new passenger cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped. A delegation of workers complained that wages had been cut but not rents at their company housing, and other costs in the company town. the company owner, George Pullman, refused to lower rents or go to arbitration.
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