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When the American Railway Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, it set into motion a chain of events whose repercussions are still felt today. The strike pitted America's largest industrial union against twenty-four railroads, paralyzed rail traffic in half the country, and in the end was broken up by federal troops and suppressed by the courts, with union leader Eugene Debs incarcerated. But behind the Pullman case lay a conflict of ideologies at a watershed time in our nation's history. <p>David Ray Papke reexamines the events and personalities surrounding the 1894 strike, related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the 1895 Supreme Court decision, In re Debs, which set important standards for labor injunctions. He shows how the Court, by upholding Debs's contempt citation, dealt fatal blows to broad-based unionism in the nation's most important industry and to any hope for a more evenhanded form of judicial involvement in labor disputes-thus setting the stage for labor law in decades to come.</p> <p>The Pullman case was a defining moment in the often violent confrontation between capital and labor. It matched wealthy industrialist George P

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Author

David Ray Papke

Publisher

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700622443

Category

history

Subjects

History, Business, Law

Rating

4.5 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14