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What did Eugene V. Debs predict would happen after switchmen refused to handle Pullman cars?
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Pullman Strike
A shantytown on the lakefront in Chicago during the Pullman Strike and general economic downturn of 1893β94.
Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union, predicted that once switchmen refused to add or remove Pullman cars from trains, the railroads would fire them and attempt to replace them with nonunion workers. He further anticipated that this action would lead other union members to walk out in solidarity, ultimately causing more and more trains to come to a halt.1