At the hour of the strike, pullman residences brochure
35% of Pullman's labor force was addressed by the American Railway Union (ARU), which had driven an effective negative mark against the Great Northern Railway Company in April 1894. Albeit the ARU was not in fact associated with the Pullman laborers' choice to strike, association authorities had been in Pullman and at the gathering at which the strike vote was taken, and Pullman laborers without a doubt accepted that the ARU would back them. At the point when the ARU assembled in Chicago in June for its first yearly show, the Pullman strike was an issue on the agents' psyches