It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan.
The events of 1941—the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbour and the US entry into the war— made the war a truly global war
