managing the railways; the year's profits of the pullman company.re-electing the old directors, hearingthe financial statement, and making a regular and special dividend.

The Pullman Company never saw them as the skilled, vital workforce that they in fact were. - [Narrator] Porters routinely worked 20-hour shifts several days in a row and were away from their ...

During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the governor of Illinois decried President Grover Cleveland’s move to call in the National Guard ...

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In 1944 the court concurred, ordering Pullman Incorporated to divest itself of either the Pullman Company (operating) or the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company (manufacturing). After three ...

His company employed the workers, and at night, they went home to houses rented out by Pullman and shopped at stores he owned. In 1893, a recession hit Chicago, causing the railway car company to ...

The company refused. Pullman argued that "arbitration always implies acquiescence in the decision of the arbitrator, whether favorable or adverse." Six days later, on May 12, ...

The Brotherhood had to elude company spies, rebuild after an aborted strike, defeat a Pullman-backed union, overcome pushback from within the Black community and survive Depression-era furloughs. It ...

The brothers have lived in Pullman their entire lives, growing up in what was once a company town for the Pullman Railroad Car Company. Both worked at the factory from 1959 until its closure in 1981.

‘Pullman Company Maids’ exhibit captures Black women’s work experience during Jim Crow Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number.

George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost for his workers, while benefitting Pullman’s bottom line. Aired 10/06/2023.