The Pullman case
by David Ray Papke
1999
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The 1894 strike by the American Railway Union, eventually broken by federal troops and the courts, set an important precident for judicial involvement in labor disputes. Papke examines the strike, the proceedings in the Illinois courts, and the 1895 Supreme Court decision, In re Debs.