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9 August, 10:44

How did the government react to the Pullman Strike? How does this event characterize government?

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    Two Chicago judges issued an injunction against the boycott

    The Chicago injunction made the strike a crime punishable by a jail sentence for contempt.

    The Government used conciliatory gestures like creating a National Holiday "labor Day".

    PART B

    The Pullman's strike characterised the Government as an unfair, an unbalanced and inconsistent with honest opinions.

    Explanation:The Pullman's strike is a major widespread strike by railroad strike and boycotts, this led to a high level of disruption of rail Activities it occured between May 1894 to June 1894.

    The Government responded by

    Obtaining a court injunction which criminalised the strike and boycotts and on June 28 when the then President Grover Cleveland in Union with the United States of America Congress created a national holiday called the Labor Day, as a conciliatory gesture toward the American labour movement.
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