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Hace 5 días · Eugene V. Debs had recently organized the American Railway Union (ARU). Although at first reluctant to get involved, he eventually seized on the Pullman strike as an opportunity to organize Pullman workers and add them to the ARU’s members. The Pullman Company refused to recognize the union.
Hace 5 días · Among the founders of the IWW were William D. (“Big Bill”) Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party, and Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party. Debs withdrew his support as the group grew more radical.
Hace 4 días · Eugene V. Debs Hall. 483 Peckham Street . Buffalo, NY 14206. Made with Squarespace
Hace 4 días · April 13 – Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I. April 15 – Boston Telephone Strike of 1919 begins. Ends successfully for the telephone operators and supporters on April 20.
Hace 5 días · To understand the context of such political disputes, it is important to remember that South Carolina’s population, for example, was majority black until about 1920. The Shell Manifesto, associated with the populist reform effort, was intended to rally support for Benjamin R. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman (1847–1918), a wealthy South Carolina ...
Hace 5 días · There are two essential conditions of civil liberty: first, self-government, and second, the civil machinery of free national life. And in importance they stand in the order in which I have mentioned them. Self-government is a better term than liberty. We are in the habit of speaking of certain nations as free people.
Hace 2 días · LaRouche was in jail at the time, having been convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in December 1988; it was only the second time in history that the presidency was sought from a prison cell (after Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs, while imprisoned for his opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I, ran in 1920).
