<Table> <Tr> <Td> Deaths: 30 Injuries: 57 Arrests: </Td> <Td> Deaths: Injuries: </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Deaths: 30 Injuries: 57 Arrests: </Td> <Td> Deaths: Injuries: </Td> </Tr> <P> The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law . It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland . The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan . The conflict began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages . </P> <P> Most factory workers who built Pullman cars lived in the "company town" of Pullman on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois . The industrialist George Pullman had designed it ostensibly as a model community . Pullman had a diverse work force . He wanted to hire African - Americans for certain jobs at the company . Pullman used ads and other campaigns to help bring workers into his company . </P>

Violent chicago strike that took place in 1894