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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Debs sentenced for leadership of Pullman strike

On December 15, 1894, US labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months imprisonment for his leadership of the Pullman railroad strike.



Read a review of David Jay Papke, The Pullman Case: The Clash of Law and Capital in Industrial America (1998). Listen to brief remarks by Eugene V. Debs recorded in 1904. Visit the website of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation and tour the Debs House.



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