For a generation the general strike had been the dream of organized labour, which dream had arisen originally in the mind of
Debs, one of the great labour leaders of thirty years before.
Debs, national leader of the American socialists at the time, the following words: "The labor leaders that cannot be bribed nor bullied, must be ambushed and murdered.
"For Heaven's sake, pop thy hands under the pump,
Deb! Upon my soul, if the London folk only knowed of thee and thy slovenly ways, they'd swaller their milk and butter more mincing than they do a'ready; and that's saying a good deal."
Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, population 8,500, where religion and community played an important role at all gatherings.
Those last words were quoted by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in writing the court's unanimous decision that
Debs had violated the Espionage Act because his words, with draft-age youngsters in the crowd, "would obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service."
Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Although the ideal of respectable, temperate manhood articulated by
Debs and other brotherhood leaders involved bodily control in the best Victorian, bourgeois fashion, they also emphasized the physical aspects of railroading.
It is slightly surprising, especially when one considers that
Debs The Best clocked 29.34sec while Shopitaly was beaten three parts of a length by Group Tycoon in a slower 29.77sec.
EUGENE VICTOR
DEBS remained constantly in the American public eye from the time of his trial for refusing to obey a federal injunction during the Pullman strike of 1894.
Gentle Rebel presents
Debs as a dedicated leader of a Third Party movement.
Eugene Victor
Debs played an important role in popularizing ideas and ideals which were denounced as radical, even "unAmerican," in the early part of the 20th century.
Vanzetti's letter is one of more than 1,500 written to or by Eugene
Debs collected in the three-volume Letters Of Eugene V
Debs, edited by J.
And this year lining up in Edinburgh with thousands of other women, men and young people will be
Debs and her daughter Phoebe.
Debs - United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926)