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Article: GOODWILL BACKFIRES ON INDUSTRIALIST
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- September 5, 1994
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A shorter version ran B3, North Lake and South Lake editions.
The industrialist who made Pullman Palace Cars for tired railroad travelers also built a company town for his workers, a move of goodwill he thought would help prevent labor strikes.
Instead, George Mortimer Pullman's policies backfired, igniting a nationwide labor war a century ago that helped plant the seeds of the modern labor movement.
After a bloody strike against Pullman, labor unions reorganized, company towns in industrial areas declined and negotiators began using arbitration to settle disputes.
It wasn't the first strike to attract national ...