Study Hall Digest 9/4/2017

by | September 4, 2017

Hi On May 11, 1894, workers at the Chicago-based Pullman Company, which manufactured railway cars, called a strike. George Pullman, the owner of the company, had reduced wages and laid off thousands of workers but refused to reduce rents on the apartments his workers were forced to live in, in the Pullman-owned company town on […]

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