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When did Pullman workers walk off the job in 1894?
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Pullman Strike
A shantytown on the lakefront in Chicago during the Pullman Strike and general economic downturn of 1893β94.
Pullman workers walked off the job on May 11, 1894, after the company president, George M. Pullman, refused to meet with a delegation of workers to discuss grievances regarding wage cuts and high rents in the company town of Pullman, Illinois.12