Pullman Strike

• Pullman Strike

The Pullman Strike of 1894 was one of the most influential events in the history of U.S. labor. What began as a walkout by railroad ...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Po–San

• [ Taking Names ]

Pullman strike Writer Philip Pullman is outraged over plans to adapt "The Chronicles of Narnia" into a movie series, calling C.S. Lewis' books "racist" and "misogynistic.

• The Washington Times
• October 19, 2005

• Burlington Northern R. Co. v. Maintenance of Way Employes, 481 U.S. 429 (1987)

... Labor Act (RLA), BMWE instituted a lawful strike against the Guilford railroads. BMWE later extende... with numerous references to the notorious Pullman Strike of 1894, the House refused an amendment pro...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism.

Eugene Victor Debs was the leader of the Socialist Party in the 1920s, and was known for his kindness and compassion. Before becoming leader of the party, he had been an organizer for the Amiercan Railway Union and was jailed for his involvement in a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Later, he was again jailed for speaking out against US participation in World War I.

• The Progressive
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 1, January 1999

• Labor And Employment Law Weekly Update (Week Of September 12, 2011)

...Army to crush the Pullman Strike of 1894. There was such strong public outra...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Labor Day: ; Legacy of Ancestors

A number of local labor parades and festivals sprouted up around the country by the late 1800s. Increasingly, industrialized America wanted an observance for workers. But it wasn't until an economic depression and the government's reaction to a strike in 1894 that Congress voted to put Labor Day on the national calendar. It happened in Pullman, Ill. Pullman was a company town organized and run by George Pullman, who manufactured the famous railroad cars.

• Charleston Gazette
• September 07, 2010

• 11 Tom Brady v. National Football League, (8th Cir. 2011)

... NFL players engaged in a fifty-seven-day strike before agreeing to a new CBA that included a modif... with numerous references to the notorious Pullman Strike of 1894, the House refused an amendment pro...

• Federal Circuits

• Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337 (1970)

...Trials involving that spectacle strike at the very heart of constitutional government. . ... riot; In re Debs, , involving the Pullman strike; Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U.S. 103 , involvi...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Transportation Union v. Long Island R. Co., 455 U.S. 678 (1982)

... the Act permits a union to resort to a strike. Anticipating that New York would challenge the Ra... by President Cleveland in reaction to the Pullman strike of 1894. Federal mediation of railroad labo...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Professionalizing Library Education, the California Connection: James Gillis, Everett Perry, and Joseph Daniels

This article explores the debates among library science educators in the decade prior to the publication of the Williamson Report in 1923. It explores the lives and work of three prominent California library administrators and educational pioneers: Everett Perry at the Los Angeles Public Library, Joseph Daniels at the Riverside Public Library, and James Gillis, California State Librarian. Perry, Daniels, and Gillis developed innovative and distinctive library training programs at their respective institutions, and in the process they engaged in vigorous, often contentious, correspondence over their educational philosophies and goals and how library education should develop in the future. Their debates reflected current issues in the emerging profession, while their actions prefigured ma...

... one biographer attributed to the bitter Pullman railroad strike of 1894 precipitated Gillis's "ret...

• Library Trends
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 4, April 2004