On this day, 11 May 1894, the Pullman railroad strike began in Chicago following the firing of three workers the previous day. Called by Eugene Debs’ American Railroad Union, it was the biggest strike in US history to date, it was only eventually broken by federal government troops and by the killing of at least 24 strikers. This is a great history of the strike by Jeremy Brecher: https://libcom.org/history/pullman-strike-1894-jeremy-brecher
Pictures: strikers confronting federal troops outside the Arcade building https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1122249231293559/?type=3