History Matters: For the Further Benefit of Our People

After the onset of the 1893 Depression, George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company found his company crumbling as employees "Appealed to the American Railway Union (ARU), which organized a nationwide strike." Read the letter he wrote to his employees, in which he "Explained his motives for cutting wages during the economic depression of 1893." This letter was originally published in the Chicago "Herald," in June of 1894.