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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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