Pullman was hated.
Grover Cleveland was the president during the Pullman strike.
Why President Grover Cleveland declared national holiday labor day before the strike in Pullman's town?
The president (during the Pullman Strike) of the ARU was Eugene V. Debs; not to be confused with Grover Cleveland: the president of the United States at the time.
The 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.
The president (during the Pullman Strike) of the ARU was Eugene V. Debs; not to be confused with Grover Cleveland: the president of the United States at the time.
Pullman Company Strike
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.
President Grover Cleveland sent in 12,000 US Army troops under General Nelson Miles on the pretense that the strike disrupted the delivery of the US Mail.
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.
The = pullman strike was a strike of Rail road workers against any train that had a pullman car attached to it. They would not service them. George pullman was cutting the hours of his works and keeping the prices of the company town the same. so the works could not afford to live there so they went on strike. The president at the time Gorver Cleveland sent in US troops to break up the strike because most train had stopped due to lack of maintance.
Pullman Company Strike