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"The Great Railway Strikes--the first meat train leaving the Chicago stock-yards under escort of United States cavalry, July 16, 1894" This image represents the Pullman Strike (May 11, 1894–c. July 20, 1894), which was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. The federal government’s response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. Amid the crisis, on June 28 President Grover Cleveland and Congress created Labor Day as a conciliatory gesture toward the labor movement. Artist: G.W. Peters

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Uncle Sam in charge of Raton yards during the Pullman strike

Photographer: W.B. Pickett Date: July 1894 Negative Number: 072312

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A Pullman porter at Chicago's Union Station, circa 1943

Many working people across the United States are enjoying a three-day weekend thanks to Labor Day. But sadly, it has become more of a retail holiday and a marker for the end of summer than a celebration of workers and organized labor. Even those who do honor workers and unions rarely explore the historical links between the Pullman Strike of 1894 and the black Pullman porters who could not strike—because they weren't allowed in a whites-only union.

In an op-ed for The Grio, Theodore R. Johnson wrote about how Labor Day was born:

Being excluded from the right to even fight for fair work and wages, the Pullman porters formed their own union called the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, the first black union, and A. Philip Randolph was its first president. That name should sound familiar: the first planned March on Washington was Randolph’s brainchild. Set to take place in the 1940s, this demonstration was called off weeks before its kick-off date because President Roosevelt met with Randolph and other civil rights leaders in 1941, and signed an order barring racial discrimination in the federal defense industry. Roosevelt did so to stop the march from happening.

Keep reading below for more of the history, and some discussion.