The Pullman boycott

The account chronicles a major railway labor conflict, following the rise of a national railway union, a coordinated boycott of sleeping-car operations, and the rapid spread of strikes that disrupted rail traffic. It details managers’ countermeasures, federal intervention including troop deployments and court actions, outbreaks of violence and incendiarism, prosecutions and jailing of union leaders, widespread blacklisting of workers, negotiation efforts, official inquiry, and the strike’s eventual collapse and aftermath.