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Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
June 26 - Have You Heard of Jennie Curtis?
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
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.
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