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5 days ago · American radicals—led by the socialist Eugene V. Debs and an eclectic band of militants that included Mother Jones (Figure 2), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “Big Bill” Haywood, and Lucy Parsons, among others—pushed for more radical and immediate change through the Socialist Party, insurgent industrial unions in mining and textiles, and ...
3 days ago · The enforcement of the Sedition Act led to over a thousand prosecutions. Among the most notable was the case of Eugene V. Debs a well-known socialist leader and a five-time presidential candidate who was sentenced to ten years in prison for a speech in which he encouraged resistance to the draft.
6 days ago · In 1894 Eugene V. Debs led members of the American Railway Union on strike in what is known as the Pullman strike. This strike had major economic implications and soon President Grover Cleveland declared it a federal crime and deployed troops to break it up.
5 days ago · A missive from Debs on the first ‘4th of July’ held during World War One. ‘International Patriotism’ by Eugene V. Debs from Northwest Worker. No. 235. July 8, 1915. We socialists hold i…
5 days ago · Eugene Debs, formerly of the American Railway Union, and Charles O. Sherman of the United Metal Workers were involved but did not attend the meeting. The IWW was officially founded in Chicago, Illinois in June 1905.
1 day ago · The 1908 United States presidential election in California took place on November 3, 1908, as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president . California voted for the Republican nominee, former War Secretary William ...
5 days ago · In 1897 she joined the Social Democratic Party, formed that year by Eugene V. Debs and Victor L. Berger. In 1898 she moved to the more radical Socialist Labor Party, headed by Daniel De Leon, but in 1902 she returned to Debs’s renamed Socialist Party of America.
