Debs’s American Railway Union all but halted transportation by rail west of Detroit for more than a month—either by refusing to touch Pullman cars or by actively unhitching them from the trains.

Debs began to organize on behalf of the working class and by 1893, his efforts had resulted in the American Railroad Union, the first industrial union in the U.S.

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, ...

On June 20, 1893, Debs's ambitions grew when he founded the American Railway Union (ARU) to protect all workers throughout the railroad industry, not just firemen.

He transformed the American Railway Union into the Socialist Party of America and, beginning in 1900, ran for president five times under its banner. Debs avoided much of the ideological hair ...

Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW ...

Eugene Debs was the first major Democratic Socialist in American history, running for president five times in the early 1900s. NPR goes on a tour of his home in Terre Haute, Ind., ahead of that ...

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 ...

In 1893, he helped found the American Railway Union and became its first president. Within a year, Debs and the union forced concessions from the Great Northern Railroad. Need a break?

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, ...