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Pullman’s reputation was soiled by the strike. In 1894, in an effort to conciliate organized labor after the strike, President Grover Cleveland and Congress designated Labor Day as a federal holiday.

Pullman strikers outside Arcade Building in Pullman, Chicago. The Illinois National Guard can be seen guarding the building during the Pullman Railroad Strike in 1894. See page for author [Public ...

The summer of 1894, when Labor Day was declared a national holiday, was a season of protest, not leisure, for the American labor movement. The Pullman Strike, a massive strike and boycott ...

Soldiers rest in Pullman car quarters during the 1894 Pullman Railroad Strike in Chicago. The Pullman strike was a key element in the creation of a national Labor Day holiday.

The very origins of Labor Day grew out of the Pullman strike of 1894, a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement made by President Grover Cleveland and Congress after the strike ended.