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Eugene V Debs Hall in Buffalo, NY is a 501(c)7 nonprofit social club; and home to the Eugene V. Debs Local Initiative, a project to document and commemorate Buffalo's labor movement history. Former New York radio station WEVD (now ESPN radio), then owned by the socialist Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward , took its call letters from ...
The Cleveland May Day riots of 1919 were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout Cleveland, Ohio on May 1 (), 1919. [4] [5] The riots occurred during the May Day parade organized by Socialist leader Charles Ruthenberg, of local trade unionists, socialists, communists, and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to protest against the conviction of Eugene V. Debs and ...
Debs, at center, delivering the speech in Canton, Ohio, for which he was prosecuted. Eugene V. Debs was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for the American Presidency. On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I.
That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. The circumstances are obviously different. Debs, despite his influence and fame, was effectively a fringe candidate that year; Trump has already held the office and is running as the near ...
Harper's Weekly labeled Eugene Debs and the strike organizers as "The Vanguard of Anarchy", July 21, 1894. Following his release from prison in 1895, ARU President Debs became a committed advocate of socialism, helping in 1897 to launch the Social Democracy of America, a forerunner of the Socialist Party of America. He ran for president in 1900 ...
In fact, there’s even a historical precedent of a felon running for the Oval Office from prison: Eugene V. Debs in 1920. Despite having been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sedition, ...
Longtime worker's advocate, Socialist Eugene Debs, a Terre Haute native, ran for president from a Georgia prison cell. Retro Indy: Meet Indiana's Socialist presidential candidate who ran from a ...
Debs appealed the case, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court. He never expressed remorse for his anti-war, pro-free speech stance. At his sentencing, he informed the judge that he would not have ...