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Pullman, Illinois was as good an example as any in the late 19th century of the dictatorship of capital over labor in a nation where workers had democratic rights.  The workers at Pullman were factory workers who built the Pullman sleeping cars for the railroads. 

 They lived in a "company town" where they as a condition of their employment had to live in overpriced company housing and shop in overpriced company stores.  When the Pullman company forced a wage cuts  on them in 1894(the country was in the midst of a depression) they petitioned the American Railway Union, an industrial union of a railroad workers led by Eugene Debs, for membership.  

The ARU accepted them and launched a railroad strike in their behalf.  The U.S.  Attorney General, Richard Olney,  formerly the chief attorney for the railroad owners General Managers Association, proceeded to place federal mails on trains with Pullman cars as a pretext to use force to break the strike.  After significant violence, the strike was broken, Eugene Debs imprisoned, and the ARU destroyed. 

 To add insult to injury, Debs imprisonment was later upheld by an anti-labor Supreme Court using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, that is, national industrial unions like the ARU were :"combinations in restraint of trade."  This struggle led Debs, who was an industrial unionist but not yet a socialist at the time, to turn to the study of socialism and embrace socialism as the only logical alternative to capitalist concentration, exploitation, and control of governments.  When a unified Socialist Party of America was formed at the turn of the 20th century, Debs emerged as its most important national leader and was its presidential candidate in four elections, the last as a prisoner in the federal prision at Atlanta in 1920 because of his opposition to World War I.

Labor History is American History.  Pullman should be a National Historic Site.