Eugene V. Debs, 5 times Socialist candidate for President, ... After leading the American Railway Union in a confrontation with federal troops sent to break up the Pullman strike of 1894, ...

DEBS DID NOT REPORT IN TIME; Six of His Fellow American Railroad Union Men Go to Jail to Serve Their Unexpired Sentences. Share full article. June 12, 1895.

When Eugene V. Debs first visited Butte on February 8, 1897, he was already a prominent labor union activist. He was a founder of the American Railway Union and was ...

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 ...

Eugene V. Debs is pictured in Chicago in an undated photo. ... He founded the American Railway Union in 1893, cofounded the American Socialist Party in 1900 and ran for president five times. He ...

In 1893, Debs played a key role in organizing the first modern industrial-scale union, the American Railway Union, where different workers within one industry came together across jobs and skill ...

In Debs’ time, railway workers faced brutal and life-threatening working conditions with no financial safety net. The first union Debs joined existed to help pay for its members’ funerals.

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. Recommended Videos The circumstances are ...