June 26 Have you ever heard of Jennie Curtis

On this day Labor History the year was 1894.  That was the day the American Railway union, led by Eugene Debs, voted to support the boycott of Chicago’s Pullman Palace Cars.  The nation was gripped by an economic depression. The Pullman workers were on strike, because the company had severely slashed wages.  But Pullman had not reduced the workers rent payments in his company town.