The Pullman Company and the Pullman Debt Crisis

In 1894, the Pullman workers decided to strike for a better deal. They set their sights on Eugene Victor Debs, who at the time embodied the hope for the power of labor. "If your dad dies with debts, you take on those debts in addition to what you have to pay," one worker says. 'It's forever branding people, again, 2.0,' she adds.