The pullman strike (1894) was significant in american labor history because it showed what?

The significance of the Pullman strike of 1894 began because of the harsh treatment that George Mortimer Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company imposed on his employees.  He paid them low wages, did not allow them own or buy their house made them pay certain charges.  As a result the workers went on strike.  Led by Eugene Debs, they refuse to pull any of the Pullman cars.  Soon many workers supported the strike that it took an injunction and the intervention of government troops sent by President Grover Cleveland to end the strike.  Workers fought and destroyed properties and in the ensuing clash many killed and wounded.  Debs was sentenced to six months in prison.  The Pullman strike was significant because it took an injunction as well as deployment of government troops to put an end to the strike whereas strikes were usually stopped through the courts.

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