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President Grover Cleveland ordered U.S. Marshals and U.S. Army troops to end the strike because it was affecting the transportation of the U.S. mail.The Pullman Strike ended as a direct result of the violent intervention of federal troops deployed by President Grover Cleveland.
attached mail cars to Pullman cars as a reason to send in federal troops to break the strike.
The Pullman strike of 1894 ended when the Federal government issued an injunction to end it.
The Pullman Strike
In 1877, the Great Railroad Strike occurred in Chicago.
Pullman Strike
President Grover Cleveland ordered U.S. Marshals and U.S. Army troops to end the strike because it was affecting the transportation of the U.S. mail.The Pullman Strike ended as a direct result of the violent intervention of federal troops deployed by President Grover Cleveland.
Cleveland justified federal intervention on the grounds that mail travelled on the trains and since the postal service was a federally run operation, the strike was jeopardizing the operation of a branch of the central government.
attached mail cars to Pullman cars as a reason to send in federal troops to break the strike.
The Pullman strike of 1894 ended when the Federal government issued an injunction to end it.
The Pullman strike of 1894 ended when the Federal government issued an injunction to end it.
Grover Cleveland was the president during the Pullman strike.
people were really mean Wages cuts and working conditions
The government use of federal troops to break a labor strike.
The federal government responded to the Pullman Strike by using federal troops to control the striking workers. Later, Labor Day was designated as an official holiday in an effort to conciliate the organized labor movement.
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in US in the summer of 1894. It did pit the American Railway Union against Pullman Company, main railroads, and federal government of United States under President Grover Cleveland.
Pullman Company Strike