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 ...

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 ...

Alternately loved and reviled, Eugene Debs was a passionate labor leader and a formidable speaker in a time of great change in the U.S. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Debs emerged as a divisive ...

This Labor Day weekend, we share Eugene Debs’s 1888 broadside against that most hateful of characters: the strikebreaker. The scab “sinks to the level of a loathsome reptile,” Debs writes.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...