How George Pullman's Company Town Turned Into America's Biggest Labor Uprising (1894)
In 1894, George Pullman built a perfect company town where he owned every home, shop, church and library. Then he cut wages by a quarter and refused to cut rent. What followed became the largest labor uprising in American history: 125,000 railroad workers, a national boycott, federal troops in Chicago, and the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs.

In this documentary-style story we cover the Pullman Palace Car Company, the model town of Pullman, Illinois, the Panic of 1893, the American Railway Union, Grover Cleveland and Richard Olney's response, Governor Altgeld's protest, In re Debs, and why it still matters today, from Labor Day to the Pullman Porters.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The Perfect Prison
1:50 The Man Behind the Empire
3:48 The Perfect Town
6:54 The Collapse
9:34 Enter Eugene V. Debs
11:40 The Boycott That Stopped a Nation
14:15 The Government Takes a Side
17:14 The Aftermath: Who Really Won?
20:13 Why This Still Matters

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