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Eugene Victor Debs

Debs in 1897
Born November 5, 1855(1855-11-05)
Terre Haute, Indiana
Died October 20, 1926 (aged 70)
Elmhurst, Illinois
Known for Socialism
Spouse Kate Metzel (m. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Terre Haute ( is a city in Vigo County, Indiana near the state's western border with Illinois. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Elmhurst is an affluent Suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution 1855)
Parents Jean Daniel Debs (1820-1906)

Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA The Socialist Party of America (SPA was a socialist Political party in the United States. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by [1]

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Rise to prominence

Eugene Debs was born to parents from Colmar, Alsace, France who immigrated to the US. Colmar (Colmar kɔlmaʁ Alsatian: Colmer pronounced; Colmar between 1871-1918 and 1940-1945 also Kolmar) is a town and commune Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. He was born and lived most of his life in Terre Haute, Indiana. Terre Haute ( is a city in Vigo County, Indiana near the state's western border with Illinois. His father Jean Daniel Debs (1820-1906) came from a prosperous family and owned a textile mill and meat market. Eugene Debs was named after the French authors Eugene Sue and Victor Hugo. "Marie Sue" redirects here For the term in fan fiction see Mary Sue. Victor-Marie Hugo ( ( February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French Poet, Playwright, Novelist [2]

Eugene Debs married Kate Metzel on June 9, 1885; they had no children. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

At the age of 17, Debs left home to work on the railroads, becoming a fireman (also known as boilerman). He returned home in 1874 to work as a grocery clerk. The next year he was a founding member of a new lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen was one of the railroad unions of the 1800s He rose quickly in the Brotherhood, becoming first an assistant editor for their magazine and then the editor and Grand Secretary in 1880. At the same time, he became a prominent figure in the community; in 1884 he was elected to the Indiana state legislature as a Democrat, serving one term. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party.

The railroad brotherhoods were comparatively conservative unions, more focused on providing fellowship and services than in collective bargaining. Debs gradually became convinced of the need for a more unified and confrontational approach. After stepping down as Grand Secretary, he organized, in 1893, one of the first industrial unions in the United States, the American Railway Union (ARU). Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus The American Railway Union (ARU was the largest union of its time and the first industrial union in the United States. The Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894, winning most of its demands. The Great Northern Railway, running from St Paul Minnesota to Seattle Washington &mdash more than 1700 miles (2736 km &mdash was the creation of

Pullman Strike

Debs was jailed later that year for his part in the Pullman Strike, which grew out of a strike by the workers who made the Pullman Company's cars and who appealed to the American Railway Union at its convention in Chicago for support. The Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. [1] Debs attempted to persuade the ARU members who worked on the railways that the boycott was too risky, given the hostility of both the railways and the federal government, the weakness of the ARU, and the possibility that other unions would break the strike. The membership ignored his warnings and refused to handle Pullman cars or any other railroad cars attached to them, including cars containing U. S. mail.

The federal government did, in fact, intervene, obtaining an injunction against the strike on the theory that the strikers had obstructed the railways by refusing to show up for work, then sending in the United States Army on the grounds that the strike was hindering the delivery of the mail. The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution. An injunction is an Equitable remedy in the form of a Court order, whereby a party is required to do or interact with in certain ways all right or to refrain from The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. An estimated $80 million worth of property was damaged, and Debs was found guilty of interfering with the mail and sent to prison.

A Supreme Court case decision, In re Debs, later upheld the right of the federal government to issue the injunction. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. In re Debs, 158 US 564 ( 1895) was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down concerning Eugene V

Socialist leader

Campaign poster from his 1912 Presidential campaign. Debs was a frequent Socialist candidate for President in the early 1900s.
Campaign poster from his 1912 Presidential campaign. The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates two of whom had previously won election to the office Debs was a frequent Socialist candidate for President in the early 1900s. The Socialist Party of America (SPA was a socialist Political party in the United States.

At the time of his arrest for mail obstruction, Debs was not a Socialist. However, while jailed in Woodstock, Illinois, he read the works of Karl Marx. After his release in 1895, he started his socialist political career. The experience radicalized Debs still further. He was a candidate for President of the United States in 1900 as a member of the Social Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party (SDP was a short-lived Political party in the United States and a predecessor to the Socialist Party of America. He was later the Socialist Party of America candidate for President in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, the final time from prison. The Socialist Party of America (SPA was a socialist Political party in the United States. His 1912 showing, 6 percent of the vote, remains the all-time high for a Socialist Party candidate. The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates two of whom had previously won election to the office

Debs was, however, largely dismissive of the electoral process: he distrusted the political bargains that Victor Berger and other "Sewer Socialists" had made in winning local offices and put much more value on the organization of workers, particularly on industrial lines. Victor Louis (Luitpold Berger ( February 28, 1860 &ndash August 7, 1929) was an American Politician, a major part of the Sewer Socialism was a term originally more or less Pejorative, for the American Socialist movement that centered in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and Debs saw the working class as the one class to organize, educate, and emancipate itself by itself.

Debs denounced racism throughout his years as a socialist, refusing to address segregated audiences in the South and condemning D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. David Llewelyn Wark "D W" Griffith (January 22 1875 &ndash July 23 1948 was a premier pioneering Academy Award -winning American Film director. The Birth of a Nation (also known as The Clansman) a Silent film directed by D

Socialists split with the IWW

Debs giving a speech in Chicago in 1918.
Debs giving a speech in Chicago in 1918.

Yet Debs was equally uncomfortable with the apolitical stance of some within the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA He had been an early supporter of the IWW, helping to organize it in 1905, along with Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party. Daniel De Leon ( December 14, 1852 &ndash May 11, 1914) was a Curaçao -born American socialist and Syndicalism Origins The party was founded in Newark New Jersey, in 1876 as the Workingmen's Party of America. But the Wobblies (as IWW members were known) had grown tired of bickering between the two socialist parties,[3] and particularly of what they viewed as opportunism by De León. [4] At their convention in 1908, the Wobblies amended the IWW constitution to emphasize industrial action, and to prohibit political action, i. e. , alliance with any political party, in the name of the union. De León and Debs both left the IWW in 1908. [5]

Later, the electoral wing of the Socialist Party led by Victor Berger and Morris Hillquit became irritated with speeches by Big Bill Haywood, a member of the National Executive Committee, but also a leader of the IWW. Victor Louis (Luitpold Berger ( February 28, 1860 &ndash August 7, 1929) was an American Politician, a major part of the Morris Hillquit (1869-1933 was a prominent Socialist and labor Lawyer in New York City 's Lower East Side during the early 20th William Dudley Haywood (February 4 1869&ndashMay 18 1928 better known as Big Bill Haywood, was a prominent figure in the American labor movement. [6] In December of 1911, Haywood told a Lower East Side audience at New York's Cooper Union that parliamentary Socialists were "step-at-a-time people whose every step is just a little shorter than the preceding step. " It was better, Haywood said, to "elect the superintendent of some branch of industry, than to elect some congressman to the United States Congress. "[7] In response, Hillquit attacked the IWW as "purely anarchistic. . . "[8]

The Cooper Union speech was the beginning of a split between Bill Haywood and the Socialist Party. [9] The final straw came during the Lawrence textile strike when, disgusted with the decision of the elected officials in Lawrence to send police who subsequently used their clubs on children, Haywood publicly declared that "I will not vote again" until such a circumstance was rectified. The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. [10] Haywood was purged from the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party by passage of an amendment that focused on the direct action and sabotage tactics advocated by the IWW. Direct action is political action which happens outside normal political channels via indirect actions such as electing representatives. Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy oppressor or employer through subversion obstruction disruption and/or destruction [11] Eugene Debs was probably the one person who might have saved Haywood's seat. [12] In 1906, when Haywood had been on trial for his life in Idaho, Debs had described him as "the Lincoln of Labor," and called for Haywood to run against Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt (ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 27 1858 January 6 1919 also known as T [13] But times had changed and Debs, facing a split in the Party, chose to echo Hillquit's words, accusing the IWW of representing anarchy. [14] Debs thereafter stated that he had opposed the amendment, but once it was adopted, it should be obeyed. [15] Debs remained friendly to Haywood and the IWW after the expulsion, in spite of their perceived differences over IWW tactics. [16]

Eugene V. Debs with Max Eastman and Rose Pastor Stokes in 1918.
Eugene V. Debs with Max Eastman and Rose Pastor Stokes in 1918. Max Forrester Eastman ( January 4, 1883 &ndash March 25, 1969) was a Socialist and (late in his life Libertarian American Rose Pastor Stokes (1879 - 1933 was a Socialist Party leader and Feminist.

Prior to Haywood's dismissal, the Socialist Party membership had reached an all-time high of 135,000. One year later, four months after Haywood was recalled, the membership dropped to 80,000. The reformists in the Socialist Party attributed the decline to the departure of the "Haywood element," and predicted that the party would recover. However, the Socialist Party's historical high point of membership had already been reached. In the election of 1913, many of the Socialists who had been elected to public office lost their seats. [17]

Leadership style

Debs was a charismatic speaker who sometimes called on the vocabulary of Christianity and much of the oratorical style of evangelism—even though he was generally disdainful of organized religion. As Heywood Broun noted in his eulogy for Debs, quoting a fellow Socialist: "That old man with the burning eyes actually believes that there can be such a thing as the brotherhood of man. Heywood Campbell Broun /bɹun/ ( December 7 1888 – December 18 1939) was an American Journalist. And that's not the funniest part of it. As long as he's around I believe it myself. "

Although sometimes called" King Debs,"[18] Debs himself was not wholly comfortable with his standing as a leader. As he told an audience in Utah in 1910:

“ I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition. ”

He was sent to the Woodstock, Illinois City Jail to avoid being killed in the city for his radical involvement in the Pullman Strike.

Opposition to World War I

Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Debs' presidential run
Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Debs' presidential run

On June 16, 1918, Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio in opposition to World War I and was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Canton is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Stark County. World War I was mainly opposed by Left-wing groups but there was also opposition by Christian Pacifist groups The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I on June 15 1917 which made it a Crime for a person He was convicted, sentenced to serve ten years in prison and disenfranchised for life.

Debs made his best-remembered statement at his sentencing hearing:

“ Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ”

Debs appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court. In its ruling on Debs v. United States, the court examined several statements Debs had made regarding World War I. Debs v United States,, was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All While Debs had carefully guarded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he still had the intention and effect of obstructing the draft and recruitment for the war. Among other things, the Court cited Debs's praise for those imprisoned for obstructing the draft. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. stated in his opinion that little attention was needed since Debs' case was essentially the same as that of Schenck v. United States, in which the Court had upheld a similar conviction. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ( March 8, 1841 &ndash March 6, 1935) was an American Jurist who served on the Supreme Schenck v United States,, was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right In the decision Holmes wrote that free speech does not include "the right to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater. "

He went to prison on April 13, 1919. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In protest of his jailing, Charles Ruthenberg led a parade of unionists, socialists, anarchists and communists to march on May 1 (May Day) 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio. Charles Ruthenberg ( July 14, 1884 &ndash 1927 was an American communist politician and activist one of the founders of the Communist A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several Public holidays In many countries May Day is synonymous with International Workers' Day, or Labour Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state The event quickly broke into the violent May Day Riots of 1919. The May Day Riots of 1919 were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout Cleveland Ohio on May 1 ( May Day) 1919.

Debs in the Atlanta Penitentiary
Debs in the Atlanta Penitentiary

Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while in prison in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He received 913,664 votes (3. 4 percent), the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. and slightly more than he had won in 1912, when he obtained six percent of the vote. This stint in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and was collected into his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters (published posthumously).

On December 25, 1921, President Warren G. Harding commuted Debs' sentence to time served and Debs was released from prison. Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 August 2 1923 was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack aged

In 1924, Eugene Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Communist Karl H. The Nobel Peace Prize ( Swedish, Danish and Nobels fredspris is one of five Nobel Prizes Bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Wiik on the ground that "Debs started to work actively for peace during World War I, mainly because he considered the war to be in the interest of capitalism. "[19]

Death

Debs died on October 20, 1926, at the age of 70 in Elmhurst, Illinois. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Elmhurst is an affluent Suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. [1][20]

References in popular culture

References

  1. ^ a b c "Eugene V. Debs", Time (magazine), Monday, November 1, 1926. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2007-08-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan.  "As it must to all men, Death came last week to Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist. " 
  2. ^ Bill Roberts. The Socialist Worker. Retrieved on 2007-07-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
  3. ^ The I. W. W. : Its First Seventy Years, Fred W. Thompson & Patrick Murfin, 1976, page 20.
  4. ^ The I. W. W. : Its First Seventy Years, Fred W. Thompson & Patrick Murfin, 1976, page 38.
  5. ^ The I. W. W. : Its First Seventy Years, Fred W. Thompson & Patrick Murfin, 1976, page 39.
  6. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 156.
  7. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 157.
  8. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 159.
  9. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 159.
  10. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 183.
  11. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 200.
  12. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 199.
  13. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 109.
  14. ^ Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood, William Dudley Haywood, 1929, page 279.
  15. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 199.
  16. ^ Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood, William Dudley Haywood, 1929, page 279.
  17. ^ Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pages 199.
  18. ^ "King" Debs. Harper's Weekly (July 14, 1894). Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Retrieved on 2006-04-21. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date)
  19. ^ Nobel Foundation. The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize in Peace, 1901-1955. Retrieved on 2006-04-21. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date)
  20. ^ "Eugene V. Debs Dies After Long Illness.", New York Times, October 21, 1926. Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason.  "Socialist Leader Succumbs to Heart Ailments After Month in Illinois Sanitarium. Once Leader of Rail Union. He Led Pullman Strike In 1895. Served Nearly Three Years In Prison for Opposing War. " 
  21. ^ Debs in Prison. Retrieved on 2007-01-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks

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