Debs, Eugene V.

A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debs was five times the presidential candidate of the Socialist party. He was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railway strike; Clarence Darrow was his defense attorney. During World War I, he was imprisoned again, this time for his criticism of the war.

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Debs, Eugene V., and the Pullman strike, 413-415; T. counsel for, 414, 415.

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D Debs, Eugene V., on instigation to violence by deputies in Chicago railway strike, 301-302.

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Debs, Eugene V.: on "State Socialism," 83; on reformism, 175-177, 191; on labor unions, 335, 343-345; on syndicalism, 366, 372, 375; on revolution, 401.

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Debs, Eugene V., 59, 81, 92, 105, 126-7, 194-7, 203-4, 210-11, 239-45, 264, 290, 315-16, 336.

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