* Strike against George Pullman's company, Pullman Palace Car Company, in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11, 1894
* General cut in wages and fired the leaders of the workers' delegation desiring collective bargaining
* Workers then had requested help from the American Railway Union under Eugene V. Debs, Debs then had directed boycott with Pullman cars
* Railroad owners supported Pullman and had linked Pullman acrs to mail trains, federal court then issued an injunction forbidding interference with the operation of the mail and order the union to stop
* Deb and the union had refused, they were then arrested and jailed
* ==Supreme Court approved the use of court injunction against strikes==