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Why did the General Managers' Association refuse Eugene V. Debs's proposal to end the strike?
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Pullman Strike
A shantytown on the lakefront in Chicago during the Pullman Strike and general economic downturn of 1893β94.
The General Managers' Association, which served as the federation of railroads overseeing the response to the strike, refused Eugene V. Debs's proposal to end the strike because they had already decided to break the union's influence. Rather than rehiring the workers without prejudice as Debs requested, the association chose to hire nonunion workers to replace them, effectively undermining the strike and the American Railway Union.1