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Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was a leader of the Pullman railway strike in 1894 and a founder of the Socialist Party in 1901. He opposed the US imperialist aims in the First World War and supported the Russian Revolution but stayed in Socialist Party after the 1919 split that formed...
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was a leader of the Pullman railway strike in 1894 and a founder of the Socialist Party in 1901. He opposed the US imperialist aims in the First World War and supported the Russian Revolution but stayed in Socialist Party after the 1919 split that formed the Communist Party. Thirty of his speeches—including in Canton, Ohio, in June 1918 for which he was railroaded to prison on charges of "sedition"—are included in Eugene V. Debs Speaks (1970).