After months of growing tension, the head of the company sent three hundred private security officers to break up the strike and protect non-union workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Organized labor denounced him for using federal troops to break up the Pullman strike.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

That could be good advice. If you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is cut off will fall into your eye.

VOA: special.2010.01.17