WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ROBBER BARONS
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Amalgamated Association
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American Railway Union
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American Workers Union
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American Labor Association
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Detailed explanation-1: -To come to the assistance of the Pullman employees, the American Railway Union (ARU), the largest American union at the time, with 150, 000 members, took action.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many of the Pullman factory workers joined the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the summer of 1894 members of the American Railway Union representing the strikers succeeded in paralyzing the American railroad network west of Chicago by refusing to handle the popular Pullman cars. A federal judge’s injunction against the Union boycott turned the strike’s tide in favor of the Pullman Company.
Detailed explanation-4: -Founded in June 1893 by labor organizer Eugene Debs (1855–1926), the American Railway Union (ARU) was an industrial union for all railroad workers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eugene V. Debs was the president of the American Railway Union (ARU), which represented about one-third of the Pullman workers and which had concluded a successful strike against the Great Northern Railway Company in April 1894.