Eugene Debs

Examples of Eugene Debs in the following topics:

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • The strike was led by the upstart American Railway Union led by Eugene V.
  • Debs The union defied federal court orders and President Cleveland used the U.S.

• The Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912

  • The election of 1912 was a contest between William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V.
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  • Eugene Debs polled nearly 1,000,000 votes, more than doubling his vote of 1908.

• The Socialist Presence

  • Under the charismatic leadership of Eugene Debs, the Democratic Socialist movement became a coherent effort to enfranchise the working class.
  • Hundreds of prominent Socialists, including Eugene Debs, were convicted of treason and jailed.

• The Labor Wars

  • Discontented workers joined the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V.
  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott of all Pullman cars on all railroads .
  • The court injunction was based on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which prohibited "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States. " Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.
  • Debs went to prison for six months for violating the federal court order, and the ARU disintegrated.
  • The seven officers of the ARU were jailed following the suppression of the 1894 Pullman strike: Rogers, Elliott, Keliher, Hogan, Burns, Goodwin, and Debs.

• The Election of 1920

  • Socialist Party candidate Eugene V.
  • Debs received 913,664 popular votes, 3.4% of the total votes, despite being in prison at the time for advocating non-compliance with the draft World War I.
  • This was the highest number of popular votes received by a Socialist Party candidate in the United States, though not the largest percentage of the popular vote, as Debs had received double the vote percentage in the 1912 election.
  • This cartoon depicts Socialist Party candidate, Eugene Debs, campaigning for president from prison in 1920.

• Depression Politics

  • Immediately after the coal strike concluded, Eugene V.
  • Debs led a nationwide railroad strike, called the Pullman Strike.
  • The American Railway Union, the nation's first industry-wide union, led by Eugene V.
  • Debs, subsequently became embroiled in what The New York Times described as "a struggle between the greatest and most important labor organization and the entire railroad capital" that involved some 250,000 workers in 27 states at its peak.

• The Pullman Strike

  • Many of the workers were already members of the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V.
  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott—union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
  • Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

• Industrial Freedom

  • In 1898, he transferred his allegiance to the new Social Democratic Party of America, headed by labor leader Eugene V.
  • Debs and Wisconsin teacher-turned-newspaper publisher Victor L.

• Gompers and the AFL

  • He likewise fought the socialists, who believed workers and unions could never co-exist with business interests and wanted to use the labor unions to advance their more radical political causes, typified by the presidential campaigns of Eugene V.
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• Civil Liberties in Wartime

  • Famed labor movement leader Eugene V.
  • Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908 and 1912, was arrested in June 1918 for making a speech in Canton, Ohio, denouncing military conscription and urging listeners not to take part in the draft.
  • Charged with ten counts of sedition, Debs defended himself eloquently but was found guilty and sentenced on November 18, 1918 – exactly one week after an armistice ended the fighting in Europe – to 10 years in prison and loss of his right to vote for life.