Pullman's Palace Car Company. Secretary.

May 11, 1894, walkout of American Railway Union-led Pullman Car Works employees, prompted by Panic of 1893 induced wage cuts with no corresponding reduction in rents and fees at the company-owned town of Pullman, Illinois.

By the end of June, after union members refused to handle Pullman cars, the local walkout developed into a national railroad strike. A month later, following a union-defied federal injunction prohibiting interference with trains, mob violence, and the use of federal troops, the strike ended. Eugene V. Debs and other union leaders were convicted of violating the injunction and a three-man strike commission was appointed by President Cleveland to investigate the strike.