CLEP US History II

Answer: D - When the Pullman Palace Car Company began cutting wages in their factories in the early 1890s, dissatisfied laborers joined railroad workers’ labor unions to organize for collective bargaining. They primarily joined the American Railway Union, headed by five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. In 1894, the tensions between Pullman and the railroad workers reached the tipping point-125,000 unionized railroad workers quit rather than work on Pullman cars.