The commission investigating this event included John Kernan and Nicholas Worthington and was led by Carroll Wright.
The commission investigating this event included John Kernan and Nicholas Worthington and was led by Carroll Wright. The inspiration for the passage of the Erdman Act four years later, it garnered support from rallying speeches by the leader of a local women's group, Jennie Curtis. Mediation offers by the local Civic Federation and Mayor John P. Hopkins were turned down, and violence soon broke out at Blue Island. Attorney General Richard Olney issued an initial injunction against it before troops under Nelson Miles were called in to suppress it, with its leader being arrested on charges of disrupting the mail service. A reaction to wage cuts in response to the Panic of 1893 a year earlier, this is, FTP, what strike spurred on by Eugene Debs and involving workers of a Chicago railroad car company?
The commission investigating this event included John Kernan and Nicholas Worthington and was led by Carroll Wright.
{Pullman} Strike