Amazon.com description: Product Description: The strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company in the spring an summer of 1894 began a new era in the struggle between labor and management. The walk-out spread rapidly into a series of sympathy strikes along the thousand so miles of railroads heading west from Chicago. The participation of the American Railway Union, and its leader Eugene Debs, made this one of the first instances of an industrial union strike, and the willingess of the U.S. government to interfere on the side of management expanded Washington's power to interfere in the private economy.