Eugene Debs was the president and leader of the American Railway Union (ARU) and Pullman Strike, which was working to arouse, organize, and mobilize railroad workers all over the United States in 1893.
The ARU leaders were arrested and surrendered at an Illinois county jail in June 1895. Eugene Debs started his shift from labor activism to socialism around this time.
The Pullman Palace Car Co., a maker of railroad cars, reduced the low wages of its workers yet it did not implement equal decreases in rents in Pullman company town where majority of Pullman workers lived!
George M. Pullman, the company's president, rejected the demands of his workers such as fair pay, dignified living conditions, and 16-hour workdays. Instead, Pullman forced the workers to be dismissed from their jobs.
The Pullman Strike that lasted from May to July 1894 was actually the largest railroad strike in the American history.
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