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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 ...
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.
In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895), was a labor law case of the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a contempt of court conviction against Eugene V. Debs.Debs had the American Railway Union continue its 1894 Pullman Strike in violation of a federal injunction ordering labor unions back to work.
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 ...
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 ...
Oklahoma was the second best state in percentage points for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs with 16.42 percent with Nevada being his best with 16.47 percent. This was also the only state in which the Progressive Party candidates, former president Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, governor of California Hiram Johnson , were not on the ...
The country was still embroiled in World War I, and Debs knew that criticizing U.S. wartime policy or then-President Woodrow Wilson would run afoul of the Sedition Act of 1918, an amendment of the ...
Theodore Roosevelt followed with 27.94%, Eugene V. Debs 16.47%, and Taft 15.89%. Nevada, along with Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, were the only states where Debs came in third place or better.