<P> Early in 1895 General William M. Graham erected a memorial obelisk in the San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio, in honor of four soldiers of the 5th Artillery killed in a Sacramento train crash of July 11, 1894, during the strike . The train wrecked crossing a trestle bridge purportedly dynamited by union members . Graham's monument included the inscription, "Murdered by Strikers", a description he hotly defended . The obelisk remains in place . </P> <P> In the aftermath of the Pullman Strike, the state ordered the company to sell off its residential holdings . In the decades after Pullman died (1897), Pullman became just another South Side neighborhood . It remained the area's largest employer before closing in the 1950s . The area is both a National Historic Landmark as well as a Chicago Landmark District . Because of the significance of the strike, many state agencies and non-profit groups are hoping for many revivals of the Pullman neighborhoods starting with Pullman Park, one of the largest projects . It was to be a $350 million mixed used development on the site of an old steel plant . The plan was for 670,000 square feet of new retail space, 125,000 square foot neighborhood recreation center and 1,100 housing units . (source: Historical NY Times) </P> <P> Following his release from jail in 1895, ARU President Debs became a committed advocate of socialism, helping in 1897 to launch the Social Democracy of America, a forerunner of the Socialist Party of America . He ran for president in 1900 for the first of five times as head of the Socialist Party ticket . </P> <P> Civil as well as criminal charges were brought against the organizers of the strike and Debs in particular, and the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, In re Debs, that rejected Debs' actions . The Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld was incensed at Cleveland for putting the federal government at the service of the employers, and for rejecting Altgeld's plan to use his state militia rather than federal troops to keep order . </P>

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