Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike

Glossary

• capital stock the total of all shares in a particular company that are authorized for sale by that company’s charter
• Carnegie Scottish-born industrial and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
• contumely insolence or arrogance
• Pullman George Pullman (1831–1897), inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, which made overnight rail travel more comfortable
• Pullman, the town Pullman, Illinois, founded in the 1880s for Pullman company workers and later annexed to the city of Chicago
• zymotic diseases a term, since outmoded, for diseases such as typhoid fever and smallpox that were thought to be caused by fermentation