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Debs emerged from jail at the end of his sentence a changed man. He spent the final three decades of his life proselytizing for the socialist cause. After Debs and Martin Elliott were released from prison in 1895, Debs started his socialist political career. Debs started agitating for the ARU membership to form a Social Democratic organization.
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.
Debs's arrest afterward stamped the Pullman Strike as a turning point in labor history by showing the federal government's preference for corporate interests over workers' rights. [16] [17] [18] On June 29, 1894, Debs hosted a peaceful meeting to rally support for the strike from railroad workers at Blue Island, Illinois.
His wording was not careful enough: Debs was later arrested and tried as a traitor. Debs appealed the case, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court. He never expressed remorse for his anti-war, pro ...
During Debs' time in jail, he spent much of his time reading the literary works of Karl Marx and socialist texts brought to jail by Victor L. Berger. [18] After Debs got out of jail, he merged the ARU with the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth to form the Social Democracy of America (SDA).
Theodore Debs taking dictation from his brother Eugene V. Debs aboard the 1908 Red Special campaign train. His brother Eugene was sentenced to a six month jail term for contempt of court for violating an anti-strike injunction in connection with the sensational Pullman Strike of 1894, serving his sentence in 1895.
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A 60-year-old Key West woman bit a corrections deputy while in jail during a DUI investigation, police say. Deborah Bennett Odom was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and DUI, the ...