Май 21, 2013 0 Комментариев 24 мая в Петербурге пройдет презентация сборника статей легендарного деятеля рабочего и социалистического движения США Юджина Дебса. Their leader Eugene Debs, who actually ran for President more often than Joe Biden, summed up his view of the world in saying. Add to that the uniformly hostile media coverage, and Trump’s prospects of acquittal seem as dim as those faced by Debs in the wartime atmosphere of 1918. Redefining masculinity for the betterment of society as a whole, and offering men and boys a version of manhood where they can be their authentic The latest and best Eugene Debs news and articles from the award-winning team at
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They would always seek to use the law as an instrument of oppression and increase profits through machines, a reduction in wages, a denial of benefits and union busting. They would sacrifice anyone and anything—including democracy and the natural world—to achieve their goals. He knew that corporate power is countered only through organized and collective resistance by workers forced to fight a bitter class war. Debs turned to politics when he was released from jail in 1895.
Debs was a powerful orator and drew huge crowds across the country. In his speeches and writings he demanded an end to child labor and denounced Jim Crow and lynching. As a presidential campaigner he traveled from New York to California on a train, called the Red Special, speaking to tens of thousands.
He helped elect socialist mayors in some 70 cities, including Milwaukee, as well as numerous legislators and city council members. He propelled two socialists into Congress. In the elections of 1912 he received nearly a million votes, 6 percent of the electorate.
Eighteen thousand people went to see him in Philadelphia and 22,000 in New York City. He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists. Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man.
At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail. Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them.
I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions.
At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago.
I have preferred to go to prison. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood.
In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men. In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all.
Debs fell short once again, but his total ballooned to more than 900,000 votes —6 percent of the popular vote. It would be another eight years before his fifth and final presidential campaign—arguably one of the strangest the country has seen. The profit system is responsible for it all.
Debs traveled across the Northeast to speak to his base of frustrated workers looking for a unifying voice against war. On April 6, 1917, the United States officially declared war against Germany. Debs knew the risks he was taking with his anti-war crusade, but he continued throughout the Midwest, culminating in a speech at a Socialist Party gathering in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918.
For two hours, the impassioned orator made his case, criticizing everything from the war to the Sedition Act to the military draft. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives. The jury found him guilty on three counts of violating the Espionage and Sedition acts.
On September 18, 1918, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Свой договор он выполнил. Однако «Белл Синдикат» свои обязательства выполнил не полностью.
Он опубликовал целиком девять статей. Только после смерти все статьи были опубликованы полностью. В ней, в частности, говорится: «Русская революция… будет вписана в скрижали человечества как самое яркое и далеко идущее событие».
Конец 1923 — начало 1924 года — несмотря на ухудшение состояния здоровья, Дебс не прекращает своей общественной деятельности. Ленина, такими словами: «Я считаю Ленина величайшим мыслителем… В памяти грядущих поколений он останется как государственный человек, как светлая героическая личность, как борец за права и свободы трудящегося народа». Интересные факты Виктор Юджин Дебс произносит анти-военную речь в Чикаго 1918 г.
В мае 1920 г, Дебса, находящегося в тюрьме, посещают представители Социалистической партии Америки и получают его согласие на выдвижение его кандидатуры от Социалистической партии США для участия в выборах на пост президента США. Впервые в истории США человек, находившийся в тюрьме, участвовал в президентских выборах как кандидат.
Debs is defined by his courage. Espousing socialism invites controversy from every corner, but Debs was never afraid to speak out and did so at great personal cost. While I was at the Debs house I thought about Republican Senator and Voldemort lookalike Rick Scott , who recently said socialists and communists were not welcome in the state of Florida. He is an example to all socialists. Faith in the people is crucial. It is ultimately the workers themselves who will bring about radical change. What we should take from Debs, each and every worker, is his courage, his willingness to struggle.
Like Moses never saw the promised land, Debs never saw socialism — may he forgive me for the comparison.
Забастовки, тюрьмы и человечность Юджина Дебса
I have repeatedly stated my position on the Soviet Union and its mistakes. Communism is the future. Capitalism will be swept away. There is no point in arguing with you. You will not convince me and I will not convince you.
You are just a pseudonym that someone is hiding behind. Stock is a racist on April 4, 2023 at 2:54 am said: No wonder Stock is never invited to parties. He has to turn to evil organizations like Satan and communism. Stock is the hypocrite.
He claimed to only vote for black candidates, yet refused to vote Jade Simmons for President even though she was on his ballot. Besides, voting solely by race is in fact racism. Rosenbaum, and known to you by her pen name Ayn Rand, was born in 1905. After the Soviet revolution she fled with her family to Yevpatoria in Crimea, under the control of White counterrevolutionaries.
She finished high school there. By free education, did you mean college, or seizing her parents business, nearly starving her and her family to death, expelling her from college because she was from a bourgeois background, allowing her to reenroll after complaints from visiting foreign scientists….? Sure, that was quite an education, but I would scarcely call it free. I am real.
That is an objective fact. Whether you exist is a matter of opinion. Or is it the other way around? Try logically disproving solipsism or the matrix.
Good luck! Your failure to answer followup questions digging into your claims is the most notable fact so far. Your ideas fail when really examined. I have read more than one biography of Rand.
The events you list did not necessarily happen in the way you describe. Workers taking businesses from the bourgeoisie is the right thing to do. It is my hope that American workers rise up and seize the businesses of the bosses and that the government seizes the bank accounts of those bosses. Ayn Rand called that looting.
I am in favor of such looting. Robert K Stock on April 4, 2023 at 3:25 am said: I am not writing a book. I am not writing a dissertation. I am not giving a public address.
Debs feared the rise of the monolithic corporate state. Walter Rauschenbusch, a Christian theologian, Baptist minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement , thundered against capitalism. He equated the crucified Christ with the abolitionist John Brown. That wrong is also done to us, And they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves And not for all the race. It was also a period beset with violence, including anarchist bombings and assassinations. An anarchist killed President William McKinley in 1901, unleashing a wave of state repression against social and radical movements. Striking workers engaged in periodic gun battles, especially in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, with heavily armed company goons, National Guard units, paramilitary groups such as the Coal and Iron Police , and the U.
Debs, although a sworn enemy of the capitalist elites, was adamantly opposed to violence and sabotage, arguing that these actions allowed the state to demonize the socialist movement and enabled the destructive efforts of agents provocateurs. The conflict with the capitalist class, Debs argued, was at its core about competing values. They would always seek to use the law as an instrument of oppression and increase profits through machines, a reduction in wages, a denial of benefits and union busting. They would sacrifice anyone and anything—including democracy and the natural world—to achieve their goals. He knew that corporate power is countered only through organized and collective resistance by workers forced to fight a bitter class war. Debs turned to politics when he was released from jail in 1895. Debs was a powerful orator and drew huge crowds across the country.
In his speeches and writings he demanded an end to child labor and denounced Jim Crow and lynching. As a presidential campaigner he traveled from New York to California on a train, called the Red Special, speaking to tens of thousands. He helped elect socialist mayors in some 70 cities, including Milwaukee, as well as numerous legislators and city council members. He propelled two socialists into Congress. In the elections of 1912 he received nearly a million votes, 6 percent of the electorate. Eighteen thousand people went to see him in Philadelphia and 22,000 in New York City. He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists.
Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man. At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail. Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions.
Марк зачитал эту речь в рамках проекта «Голоса народной истории Соединённых Штатов» в церкви Всех Святых в Пасадене, Калифорния, 1 февраля 2007 года.
While the incident is making headlines across the world, a late politician, Eugene V Debs is garnering attention on social media platforms. The socialist party member, Eugene Debs ran for the US presidential elections five times from 1900 to 1920. In the year 1920, he contested the presidential elections from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
It is the ruling class that invariably does both.
Author: Eugene Debs
Eugene Debs, at center with flowers, who was serving a prison sentence for violating the Espionage Act, on the day he was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a. Официальный сервер YouTube канала EugeneSagaz. | 11989 members. 20 октября 1926) был американским социалистом, политический активист, профсоюзный деятель. I'm not sure whether Donald Trump has ever heard of Eugene Debs, the austerely incorruptible early leader of America's Socialist Party. The socialist leader Eugene Debs was jailed for opposing World War I. It didn’t stop his presidential campaign. Zeeshan Aleem: Who was Eugene Debs, and how was this man able to secure a full 3% of the vote while in prison?
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The 250,000-member vigilante group, the American Protective League , [6] J. Thousands were arrested, and attacks on anti-war activists in the street were widespread. It was in this environment, in 1918, that Eugene Debs delivered a speech against the war in Canton, Ohio. Eugene Debs By 1918, Eugene Debs was a veteran labor activist and a revered figure in the American left of the era. Debs was born in Indiana in 1855. He dropped out of school at the age of 14, and began working for the Vandalia Railroad. Early in life, he was a member of the Democratic Party, and spent time as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. Debs came of age during a time of intense strife and militancy in American labor. Debs remained employed by the railroad through the end of the 19th century, where he became involved with union organizing and more radical politics. In 1893, he helped to organize, and was elected as the first president of, the American Railway Union ARU , which waged a successful strike against the Great Northern Railway in 1894.
Debs first rose to national prominence later the same year, thanks to his central role in the Pullman Strike. Although Debs initially advised against the walkout—which he viewed as too risky—the ARU ultimately threw its support behind a nationwide boycott, and railroad workers across the nation refused to work on trains containing Pullman cars. The strike was so effective that, between May and June, nationwide rail transport ground to a virtual halt. The economic disruption was so great that, in July, President Grover Cleveland issued an injunction against the work stoppage and called in federal troops to suppress the strike. Clashes broke out, and federal troops and police killed at least 30 railroad workers while suppressing the strike. Debs was arrested and imprisoned for his role in the action. Supreme Court Library.
Какое ложное притворство! На протяжении всей истории войны велись ради завоеваний и грабежей. В средние века, когда феодалы решали расширить свои владения, увеличить свою власть, свой престиж и свое богатство, они объявляли войну друг другу. Но сами они принимали участие в войнах не больше, чем современные феодалы, бароны Уолл-Стрит. Все войны объявляли феодальные бароны средневековья, экономические предшественники капиталистов наших дней. И во всех битвах сражались их несчастные крепостные. Бедных, невежественных крепостных приучили уважать своих хозяев; верить, что, когда их хозяева объявляют друг другу войну, патриотический долг крепостных — кинуться друг на друга и перерезать друг другу глотки ради выгоды и славы лордов и баронов, презирающих их. Это и есть суть войны. Войну всегда объявляют правящие классы.
He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists. Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man. At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail. Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men. In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all. This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth. There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. The feel—they know, indeed—that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history.
Юджин Дебс фотография Юджин Дебс окончил 8 классов школы и с 14 лет начал свою трудовую деятельность вначале в качестве рабочего-железнодорожника, потом помощника кочегара и, наконец, в 1870м кочегара паровоза. Первую треть своей жизни, Юджин Дебс посвятил созданию и расширению профсоюзного движения. В его замыслах, было, объединить многочисленные рабочие профсоюзы в один сильный глобальный профсоюз. К сожалению, его замыслам было не суждено сбыться. После провала «Пульмановской забастовки» — самой массовой забастовки того времени, Дебса заключают в тюрьму на шесть месяцев.
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As civil war hashtags are trending on social media and Trump is backed into a corner, desperate to find a distraction, let’s remember the wise words of legendary American socialist Eugene Victor Debs at. Официальный сервер YouTube канала EugeneSagaz. | 11989 members. By Eugene DebsNovember 11, 2014 International Relations. Новости на Google News. Labor leader, radical, Socialist, presidential candidate: Eugene Victor Debs was a homegrown American original. Close to a million voters agreed with Debs sufficiently that they voted for him when he ran for president in 1920 from his jail cell at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Дебс, Юджин
Вплоть до своей смерти, Дебс путешествует по Америке, устраивая лекции при поддержке своего брата Теодора Дебса. На покрытие этих и других расходов у Дебса часто уходили все его сбережения. В пору кризиса, для покрытия долгов профсоюзных организаций Дебсу приходилось брать кредит на своё имя. Лучшие дня Стас Михайлов: Бывший номер один российского шансона Посетило:8417.
Hall of Honor Inductee: Eugene V.
Debs Eugene V. Debs 1855 — 1926 "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth...
Robert K Stock on April 4, 2023 at 3:25 am said: I am not writing a book. I am not writing a dissertation. I am not giving a public address. If I were then I would need to provide sources. What we are doing is having a conversation as if we are at a kitchen table drinking coffee. Follow up questions? Cite sources?
Hell no! I think you are one of the many pseudonyms used on this site. MaxZim V Zaslon on April 4, 2023 at 3:37 am said: Bubs, if you think you have no faith, why is it that you have so much faith that I am some boogeyman of yours? You seem quite convinced. You are advancing something just a technical hair short of a positive claim. Provide your evidence. Read about biofeedback loops and the power of positive thinking. Whatcha know about that? I know all about that!
White Supremacist — check. Christian — check. Russian Orthodox Church. Taliban — to the extent this Islamic concept even translates into Christianity at all, it means religious student. Fair enough, I am an amateur self taught student of theology, among many other topics. Republicans are my favorite US major party. Government should be far more local than that, other than military national defense, which has nothing to do with political parties, or at the very least ought not to. You read Archipelago Gulag 40 years ago? Congratulations, ignoramus.
Read it again, and every published public writing by and about Solzhenitsyn. Read his entire website. Read Dugin. Your arrogance and your ignorance are in a neck and neck race to the bottom, are they not? You have the intellectual curiosity and depth of a childrens cartoon cutout placed in a chair. Robert K Stock on April 4, 2023 at 3:45 am said: I made the decision to vote for people of color instead of Caucasians months after the 2020 election. I only saw her name in the ballot booth and wondered to myself, who the hell is that? I have modified my intent to vote for people of color.
Это и есть суть войны. Войну всегда объявляют правящие классы. Но в сражениях участвуют классы бесправные. Хозяева жизни получают всё и ничего не проигрывают. Простые люди не получают ничего и теряют всё — в первую очередь свои жизни. Они всегда учили вас верить, что это ваш патриотический долг — пойти на войну и умереть по команде. Но во всей истории мира, вы — простые люди — никогда не объявляли войну, и как ни странно, сам народ ни в одной нации никогда за все времена не объявлял войны. Рабочий класс, который ведет в се сражения, рабочий класс, который приносит величайшие жертвы, рабочий класс, который обильно проливает свою кровь и усеивает поле боя трупами, никогда еще не имел права голоса ни в объявлении войны, ни в заключении мира. Именно правящий класс неизменно делает и то, и другое.
Author: Eugene Debs
20 октября 1926) был американским социалистом, политический активист, профсоюзный деятель. I'm not sure whether Donald Trump has ever heard of Eugene Debs, the austerely incorruptible early leader of America's Socialist Party. In 1920, Socialist Eugene V. Debs ran for the Oval Office from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was known as "prisoner 9653," according to Smithsonian Magazine. Джо Байден сегодня — Байден назвал США самой важной страной. Сенатор США Скотт заявил о недоверии американцев администрации Байдена. Eugene Debs was a presidential candidate ran for election from prison.
Премия Юджина В. Дебса
Eugene V. In the crowd, estimated in size between 250 and more than 1,000, were several hundred socialists, sympathizers, and interested bystanders. But the crowd also included a number of individuals who were decidedly not sympathizers or well-wishers, and their presence did not bode well for the featured speaker that day. Enlarge A 14-year-old Eugene Debs seated, far left poses for a photograph with his fellow painters at the Vandalia Railroad in Terre Haute, Indiana, 1870.
Debs Collection. Of six children born to Daniel and Marguerite, Eugene was the oldest son. Theodore idolized his brother and later became his devoted assistant.
By all accounts, Debs was a good student, but the excitement of working on the railroad was too much for the youngster to ignore.
Они всегда учили вас верить, что это ваш патриотический долг — пойти на войну и умереть по команде. Но во всей истории мира, вы — простые люди — никогда не объявляли войну, и как ни странно, сам народ ни в одной нации никогда за все времена не объявлял войны. Рабочий класс, который ведет в се сражения, рабочий класс, который приносит величайшие жертвы, рабочий класс, который обильно проливает свою кровь и усеивает поле боя трупами, никогда еще не имел права голоса ни в объявлении войны, ни в заключении мира. Именно правящий класс неизменно делает и то, и другое. Только он объявляет войну, и только он заключают мир.
Не ваше — спрашивать «почему». Но ваше — сделать и умереть. Это их девиз, и мы от лица пробуждающихся рабочих нашей нации возражаем. Если война справедлива, то пусть она будет объявлена народом.
Debs 1855 — 1926 "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free... He formed the American Railway Union, led the Pullman strike of the 1890s in which he was jailed and emerged a dedicated Socialist.
With this, Debs was able to enjoy "a middle-class life of hunting and fishing," and briefly attend a private school before going to a public school.
When Debs was 14, he dropped out of school and started working at the Vandalia Railroad. Paid 50 cents per day, his job was scraping grease and paint off of the train cars. Within a year, he was promoted to fireman, and given the task of shovelling coal into the fireboxes. According to the Debs Foundation , he also attended night classes at a local business school. But, according to the New Yorker , Debs lost his job during the Panic of 1873. This led him to move to East St. Louis as he looked for work, but within two years, Debs returned to Terre Haute. Debs joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and helped create the Terre Haute local chapter in 1875.
According to " Eugene V. By 1880, Debs was made editor-in-chief. That year, he was also made national secretary-treasurer of the union. Finding Dulcinea reports that Debs also dipped his toes into public politics. In 1879, starting out as a Democrat, Debs was elected city clerk in Terre Haute, where he served two terms, and in 1885, he was elected to the Indiana state legislature. However, after serving one term on the state legislature, Debs realized that there was little he could do from his position to improve the lives of railroad workers. After being involved in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888, where workers were defeated , Debs started to envision a more unified front for railroad workers. But in response to the " limited craft organization of the Brotherhood ," where brotherhoods were separated based on the work that was being done, such as fireman or switchmen, Debs left the organization and founded the American Railway Union ARU in Chicago in 1893, according to the Debs Foundation.
Debs believed that this organization would allow all railroad workers to be united, making it more difficult for railway owners to break strikes by simply hiring replacement workers. According to the New Yorker , Debs initially tried to get the Brotherhood to expand to an industrial union, but Samuel Gompers, labor union leader of the American Federation of Labor, wanted the men to join his union instead, which was "far less radical. The Illinois Labor History Society writes that workers were joining the American Railway Union at a rate of almost 2,000 new members per day and before long, the American Railway Union had almost 150,000 members. Aafter hearing Jennie Curtis , a leader of the seamstress workers for the Pullman car shops, give a rousing speech, the ARU voted to support the Pullman workers in their strike and decided to refuse to work "any trains that included Pullman cars," according to Illinois Labor History Society. With the ARU behind them, the Pullman Strike was able to bring train traffic in several states to a standstill for over three months.