Ad Policy. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain raises his fist at a rally in Detroit on September 15, 2023. (Paul Sancya / AP Photo) Eugene Victor Debs went to jail as a labor leader—and ...

From an early age, socialist labor leader Eugene Debs was committed to women’s rights. Eugene Debs’s commitment to gender equality came early. In his mid-twenties, with women’s voting rights ...

On Labor Day recall a true friend of American workers, Eugene V. Debs, labor leader who popularized once-radical ideas like women's suffrage and minimum wage. Once-radical ideas like women’s ...

ACTION OF LABOR LEADERS.; Objections to Eugene V. Debs as a Strike Manager. Share full article. July 29, 1897. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist. In Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 ...

Debs, a socialist and labor activist, secured nearly 1 million votes while behind bars for running afoul of the Sedition Act of 1918. Eugene Debs delivers an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, in ...

In honor of those people who fought for fair labor guidelines well over a century ago, Eugene V. Debs Hall will be hosting its second annual May Day celebration on Monday, May 1, 5 to 10 pm, at ...

By the time he was imprisoned for sedition, Eugene Victor Debs had enjoyed a lifetime of running afoul of government authority. Born in 1855 into bourgeois comfort in Terre Haute, Indiana, he worked ...

Eugene Victor Debs went to jail as a labor leader—and frequent Socialist Party presidential candidate—who opposed World War I. At a 1918 rally in Canton, Ohio, Debs told the crowd, “The ...