History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . oth Coxey was released, havingmeantime been nominated for Congress,and in little over a month the remnant ofhis forces was shipped back toward the set-ting sun. The same year, 1894, marked a far morewidespread and formidable disorder, theA. R. U. Railway Strike. The AmericanRailway Union claimed a membership of100,000, and aspired to include all the 850,-000 railroad workmen in North America,It had just emerged with prestige from asuccessful grapple with the Great NorthernRailway, settled by arbitration. T
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . oth Coxey was released, havingmeantime been nominated for Congress,and in little over a month the remnant ofhis forces was shipped back toward the set-ting sun. The same year, 1894, marked a far morewidespread and formidable disorder, theA. R. U. Railway Strike. The AmericanRailway Union claimed a membership of100,000, and aspired to include all the 850,-000 railroad workmen in North America,It had just emerged with prestige from asuccessful grapple with the Great NorthernRailway, settled by arbitration. The unions catholic ambitions led it toadmit many employees of the Pullman PalaceCar Company, between whom and their em-ployers acute differences were arising. Thecompanys landlordism of the town of Pull-man and petty shop abuses stirred up irrita- 1894] LABOR AND THE RAILWAYS 141 tion, and when Pullman workers were laidoff or put upon short time and cut wages,the feeling deepened. They pointed out thatrents for the houses they lived in were notreduced, that the companys dividends the. The town of Pullman. preceding year had been fat, and that theaccumulation of its undivided surplus wasenormous. The company, on the otherhand, was sensible of a slack demand forcars after the brisk business done in connec-tion with Worlds Fair travel. 142 EXPANSION [1894 The Pullman management refused themens demand for the restoration of thewages schedule of June, 1893, but promisedto investigate the abuses complained of, and engaged that noone serving on thelaborers committeeof complaint shouldbe prejudiced there-by. Immediatelyafter this, however,three of the com-mittee were laid off,and five-sixths ofthe other employees, apparently against theadvice of A. R. U. leaders, determined upona strike. Unmoved by solicitations from employees,from the Chicago Civic Federation, fromMayor Pingree of Detroit, indorsed by themayors of over fifty other cities, the PullmanCompany steadfastly refused to arbi
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