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.
Pullman was hated.
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.
Grover Cleveland was the president during the Pullman strike.
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 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.
Why President Grover Cleveland declared national holiday labor day before the strike in Pullman's town?
The Pullman Strike
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.
President Cleveland 2 non-consistent terms presided over the entire Industrial Revolution, as well as major strikes during that period (Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike, and such.) Labor Unions basically hated him for his intervention in both the Pullman and the Homestead Strikes (he was the one who sent the military to calm the Homestead citizens down after the Pinkertons failed.) He also modernized the Navy and created the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The federal intervention that ended the 1894 Pullman strike highlights the government's alignment with corporate interests over labor rights at the time. President Grover Cleveland dispatched federal troops to break the strike, which was marked by violent clashes between strikers and law enforcement. This intervention reflects the prevailing belief in maintaining order and facilitating commerce, often at the expense of workers' demands for better wages and working conditions. The event also set a precedent for federal involvement in labor disputes, illustrating the tensions between labor movements and government authority.
because the railroad workers had stopped the trains, harming commerce in the u.s