1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pullman National Historical Park Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) in 1970, the Secretary of the Interior designated the Pullman Historic District as a National Historic Landmark District because of— (A) the significance of the District to the labor history, social history, architecture, and urban planning of the United States; and (B) the pivotal role of events in the District in creating the first national Labor Day holiday in the world; (2) between 1880 and 1884, George M. Pullman, owner of the Pullman Palace Car Company, built the Pullman community, which was envisioned by Pullman as an industrial town that would provide employees with— (A) a model community; and (B) suitable living conditions; (3) the town developed by George M. Pullman, which consisted of over 1,000 buildings and homes, was awarded The World's Most Perfect Town at the International Hygienic and Pharmaceutical Exposition in 1896; (4) the Pullman factory site is a true symbol of the historic struggle in the United States to achieve fair labor practices for the working class, with the original factory serving as the catalyst for the first industry-wide strike in the United States; (5) in the midst of economic depression in 1894, to protest unsafe conditions and reductions in pay, Pullman factory workers initiated a strike that— (A) when taken up as a cause by the American Railway Union, crippled the entire rail industry; (B) continued even in the face of a Federal injunction and a showdown between laborers and Federal troops that turned violent and deadly; and (C) set a national example for the ability of working people in the United States to change the existing system in favor of more just practices for protecting workers rights and safety