. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. r 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
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. r 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 arbitrate orto entertain any communication from theunion. We have nothing to arbitratewas the companys response to each George M. Pullman. ppm- .%•- \*zz, . ■ ■Ml if 1 Tl Camp of the U. S. troops on the lake front, Chicago.
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