Eugene Debs was a presidential candidate ran for election from prison. I'm not sure whether Donald Trump has ever heard of Eugene Debs, the austerely incorruptible early leader of America's Socialist Party. This day in 1919, Socialist leader Eugene V Debs is sent to prison for violating the Espionage Act in his opposition to WWI.
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Moreover, while the ferociously anti-Trumpist media would never admit the possibility, the Donald and his angry supporters actually have a very strong case in their bitter complaints of a stolen 2020 election. I explained those simple facts back in January 2021. Although hardly suggested by our mainstream media, the officially-reported results demonstrated that our 2020 presidential election was extraordinarily close. All the regular pre-election polls had shown the Democratic candidate with a comfortable lead, but just as had been the case four years earlier, the actual votes tabulated revealed an entirely contrary outcome. But control of the White House depends upon the state-by-state tallies, and these told a very different story. Incumbent Donald Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by such extremely narrow margins that a swing of less than 22,000 votes in those crucial states would have gotten him reelected.
With a record 158 million votes cast, this amounted to a victory margin of around 0. So if just one American voter in 7,000 had changed his mind, Trump might have received another four years in office. One American voter in 7,000. Such an exceptionally narrow victory is extremely unusual in modern American history. More recently, George W.
Bush won a narrow reelection over Sen. John F. If our incompetent or dishonest media had correctly reported these simple facts, perhaps Democratic partisans would have been somewhat more understanding of the outrage expressed by so many of their Republican counterparts, who believed they had been cheated of their election victory. Furthermore, not only was the 2020 Presidential election remarkably close, but any objective examination of the facts clearly proves that outcome was stolen from Trump. This easily explains the widespread protests by his supporters in DC on January 6th, as I discussed a few days later.
After all, if they sincerely believed that a Trump victory would be catastrophic for America why would they not use every possible means, fair and foul alike, to save our country from that dire fate?
Members of the National Guard killed anywhere from four to 30 strikers in the clash. Debs, who was no longer legally allowed to communicate with his members, could do nothing to calm tensions.
That same month, Debs was arrested and charged with contempt of court and conspiracy to interfere with U. The ARU crumbled soon after, and while many Pullman workers were eventually rehired, they had to agree in writing to never form a union. In 1897 , two years after leaving prison, he established the Social Democratic Party of America.
William McKinley won the race with a total of 7,207,923 votes, while Debs garnered just 86,935. Still, it was a start. Debs ran again in 1904, this time as a member of the next political party he helped establish: the Socialist Party of America.
His totals jumped to around 402,000 votes ; in 1908, he returned with 420,000 votes , losing to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft , respectively. Debs fell short once again, but his total ballooned to more than 900,000 votes —6 percent of the popular vote.
Debs ran as the presidential candidate of the Socialist Labor Party in the 1900 , 1904 , 1908 , 1912 United States elections. The Debs Commune , where the capitol of the United Republics is located, is named in his honor. His father came from a prosperous family and owned a textile mill and meat market. He left home at 14 to work on the railroad and soon became involved in union activity. He joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1875, where he soon became prominent figure.
In 1884, elected as a Democrat , he served a term in the Indiana General Assembly. Work with organized labor During its earlier years, the BLF was a relatively moderate and conservative organization, advocating for class collaboration and focusing primarily on providing mutual benefits and service for workers. For the first fourteen years of its existence 1873-1887 , it never attempted or authorized a strike.
На протяжении всей истории войны велись ради завоеваний и грабежей. В средние века, когда феодалы решали расширить свои владения, увеличить свою власть, свой престиж и свое богатство, они объявляли войну друг другу.
Но сами они принимали участие в войнах не больше, чем современные феодалы, бароны Уолл-Стрит. Все войны объявляли феодальные бароны средневековья, экономические предшественники капиталистов наших дней. И во всех битвах сражались их несчастные крепостные. Бедных, невежественных крепостных приучили уважать своих хозяев; верить, что, когда их хозяева объявляют друг другу войну, патриотический долг крепостных — кинуться друг на друга и перерезать друг другу глотки ради выгоды и славы лордов и баронов, презирающих их. Это и есть суть войны.
Войну всегда объявляют правящие классы. Но в сражениях участвуют классы бесправные.
Eugene V. Debs - Pioneer Rail Labor Leader
The claim is sometimes made that Eugene Debs promised to pardon himself if elected President in 1920. Alternately loved and reviled, Eugene Victor Debs was a passionate labor leader, a progressive political figure, and a formidable speaker in a time of great change in the United States. Not only is Sanders the obvious political successor to Debs, but the future of his candidacy may rest on the decision on Tuesday — the very anniversary of the final demise of Eugene Debs. In 1916, with World War I raging, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs wrote a short piece condemning the nationalism that had thrown soldiers into trench warfare and machine-gun slaughter. Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I which was raging in Europe. Eugene Debs held a rally in Canton and was convicted sedition for statements he made at the rally.
Юджин В. Дебс — рыцарь борьбы за свободу
Имя получил в честь Эжена Сю и Виктора Гюго любимых писателей родителей. Его отец Дэниель Дебс мог бы стать богатым наследником во Франции, однако, поскольку он полюбил девушку с фабрики своих родителей, он был вынужден эмигрировать в США. Все накопленные Дэниэлем Дебсом суммы были быстро потрачены, поэтому изначально он работал упаковщиком на складе, затем укладчиком шпал. Отец Юджина Дебса часто менял работу до тех пор, когда семья открыла бакалейную лавку [3]. В пять лет Юджин Виктор Дебс пошёл в школу. Учился он хорошо, хотя некоторое время имел плохие отметки по арифметике и грамматике. Однако хорошая память очень помогала ему в учении [4]. Юджин Дебс окончил 8 классов и с 14 лет начал свою трудовую деятельность вначале в качестве рабочего-железнодорожника, потом помощника кочегара и, наконец в 1870 , кочегара паровоза. Свою общественную деятельность начал в литературном Оксидентел клубе в родном городе Терре-Хот, в котором по его приглашению выступали Роберт Грин Ингерсолл и Сьюзен Энтони. Перед началом Пульмановской стачки Дебс пытался урегулировать трудовой конфликт мирными средствами. Он предложил Джорджу Пульману вынести вопрос на третейский суд, однако владелец компании отказался.
Тогда Американский союз железнодорожников начал бойкот по всей железнодорожной сети. Спальные "пульманы" отцеплялись по указанию Дебса на запасные пути [5]. Дебс активно работал в стачечном комитете. В его работе ему помогал Теодор Дебс, его брат. В течение трёх недель Дебс послал 9 тысяч телеграмм и посыльных с поручениями [5]. Когда буржуазное руководство страны, попирая элементарные конституционные свободы, решило применить войска для подавления стачки, Юджин Дебс выступил против этого решения, поскольку, по его мнению, агрессия со стороны правительства могла привести к вооружённому восстанию. В то же время пресса критиковала стачечников, называла Дебса диктатором, преследующим личную выгоду [6]. До суда его освободили под залог. В это время он выступает на митингах, призывая рабочих вести последовательную борьбу против капиталистов.
Debs Collection. Of six children born to Daniel and Marguerite, Eugene was the oldest son. Theodore idolized his brother and later became his devoted assistant. By all accounts, Debs was a good student, but the excitement of working on the railroad was too much for the youngster to ignore. Within a year he became a fireman for the railroad. In 1875 Debs, now unemployed, accepted a position with H. Debs was a charter member and was elected recording secretary. Debs believed that small, disparate, class- and trade-driven unions possessed little power to influence social change for their members.
The breakdown of capitalism saw a short-lived revival of organized labor during the 1930s, often led by the Communist Party, and during a short period after World War II, and this resurgence triggered yet another prolonged assault by the capitalist class. We have returned to an oligarchic purgatory. Wall Street and the global corporations, including the fossil fuel industry and the war industry, have iron control over the government. The social, political and civil rights won by workers in long and bloody struggles have been stripped away. Government regulations have been rolled back to permit capitalists to engage in abuse and fraud. The political elites, along with their courtiers in the media and academia, are hapless corporate stooges. Social and economic inequality replicates the worst excesses of the robber barons. And the great civic, labor and political organizations that fought for working men and women are moribund or dead. We have to begin all over again. And we must do so understanding, as Debs did, that any accommodation with members of the capitalist class is futile and self-defeating. They are the enemy. They will degrade and destroy everything, including the ecosystem, to get richer. They are not capable of reform. It has about 700 visitors a year. Rarely do these visits include school groups. The valiant struggle by radical socialists and workers, hundreds of whom were murdered in labor struggles, has been consciously erased from our history and replaced with the vacuity of celebrity culture and the cult of the self. There is the key to the cell in which he was held when he was jailed the first time. There is a photo of Convict No. There are gifts including an intricately inlaid wooden table and an ornately carved cane that prisoners sent to Debs, a tireless advocate for prisoner rights. I read a passage from a speech he gave in 1905 in Chicago: The capitalist who does no useful work has the economic power to take from a thousand or ten thousand workingmen all they produce, over and above what is required to keep them in working and producing order, and he becomes a millionaire, perhaps a multi-millionaire. He lives in a palace in which there is music and singing and dancing and the luxuries of all climes. He sails the high seas in his private yacht. He is the economic master and the political ruler and you workingmen are almost as completely at his mercy as if you were his property under the law. I leafed through copies of Appeal to Reason, the Socialist party newspaper Debs edited, which once had almost 800,000 readers and the fourth highest circulation in the country. Debs, like many of his generation, was literate. It became his own. He was well aware, like Hugo, that the good were usually relentlessly persecuted, that they were not rewarded for virtue and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found their way to their own cross. But there was no other choice for him: The kingdom of evil had to be fought.
Именно в тюрьме, читая труды социалистов, Дебс начинает приходить к мысли, что сам по себе профсоюз не имеющий политической поддержки, не может эффективно помочь рабочим в их борьбе за улучшение условий труда. Являясь одним из организаторов-учридителей вначале социал-демократической, а потом, социалистической партии США, Дебс много путешествует по стране, с целью проведения лецкий на темы социализма. В 1904, 1908, 1912 и 1920 годы — Юджин Дебс выдвигается кандидатом от Социалистической партии Америки для участия в избирательной кампании на пост президента США. В 1904 году, за кандидата Дебса проголосовала всего около 20 тысяч избирателей. В 1908 году, Дебс получил около 500 тысяч голосов.
OPINION: A day with Eugene Debs
Add to that the uniformly hostile media coverage, and Trump’s prospects of acquittal seem as dim as those faced by Debs in the wartime atmosphere of 1918. Официальный сервер YouTube канала EugeneSagaz. | 11989 members. Eugene V. Debs, November 5, Eugene V, Debs was a renowned Socialist Union leader who supported the Industrial Workers globally. Although it is well-known that Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party nominee, ran for president while imprisoned in 1920, this Seattle Times story provides many interesting details.
Победитель
Юджин Ви́ктор (Джин) Дебс — деятель рабочего и левого движения США, один из организаторов (1900—1901 годах) Социалистической партии Америки, а также (в 1905 году). Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. В 1904, 1908, 1912 и 1920 годы — Юджин Дебс выдвигается кандидатом от Социалистической партии Америки для участия в избирательной кампании на пост президента США. Юджин Дебс — легенда американского рабочего движения, один из организаторов профсоюза «Индустриальные рабочие мира» и Социалистической партии Америки. Eugene Debs held a rally in Canton and was convicted sedition for statements he made at the rally.
The Untold Truth Of Eugene V. Debs
As a Socialist Party candidate, Debs ran for president five times in the early 1900s, twice gaining over 900,000 votes. Read stories listed under on Eugene Debs. Джо Байден сегодня — Байден назвал США самой важной страной. Сенатор США Скотт заявил о недоверии американцев администрации Байдена. Eugene V. Debs was a US politician and a member of the Socialist Party and ran for President five times since 1900.
An Ominous Trend
But the crowd also included a number of individuals who were decidedly not sympathizers or well-wishers, and their presence did not bode well for the featured speaker that day. Enlarge A 14-year-old Eugene Debs seated, far left poses for a photograph with his fellow painters at the Vandalia Railroad in Terre Haute, Indiana, 1870. Debs Collection. Of six children born to Daniel and Marguerite, Eugene was the oldest son.
Theodore idolized his brother and later became his devoted assistant. By all accounts, Debs was a good student, but the excitement of working on the railroad was too much for the youngster to ignore. Within a year he became a fireman for the railroad.
In 1875 Debs, now unemployed, accepted a position with H.
Eventually, this view changed to the point where Debs decided that as long as Black people were considered inferior, then white workers would be exploited. Compared to the other labor movements and organizations at the time, the IWW was more inclusive to foreign-born workers because "they reasoned the only way to reduce competition between native and foreign workers was to organize the latter rather than exclude them from labor organizations," writes Jennifer Jung Hee Choi in "The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I. W and Asian Workers. Debs published his ideas in editorials, essays, letters to editors, and interviews. Debs: an American paradox. And before long, his editorials had expanded in their focus. In addition to advocating for industrial unions, Debs defended First Amendment Rights and advocating pacifism in his pieces. Debs gave a speech in a park in Canton, Ohio. There, he declared that "The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war [...
These were risky words and Debs knew it. On September 12, 1918, Debs was found guilty on three counts and in addition to being sentenced to 10 years in prison, his right to vote was taken away. At his sentencing, Debs stated "I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. In 1920, he ran for president one more time for the Socialist Party of America. Debs campaigned while in prison by issuing weekly campaign statements through the news wire service, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Instead, he focused his attention on criticizing President Wilson, whom he described as "a tool of Wall Street. Debs returned to Terre Haute and tried to go back to his work as an activist, but most of his time was spent focusing on his health, which was poor before prison and had become even worse since. Although Debs was encouraged to join the Communist Party, he found himself in disagreement with the Soviet system and its suppression of dissent, and instead reaffirmed his commitment to democratic socialism, according to " Eugene V. During the special national convention in Cleveland in 1925, Debs described the event as so poorly organized and with such low attendance that Debs described the Socialist Party to be "as near a corpse as a thing can be. But by the summer of 1926, his health deteriorated to the point where he was forced to go into Lindlahr Sanitarium.
There, Debs passed away on October 20, 1926. According to " The Papers of Eugene V. Debs was called everything from a " preacher of applied anarchy " to " the blue-eyed boy of destiny.
Он, должно быть, имел в виду этих дворян с Уолл-стрит или, по крайней мере, их прототипов, ибо во все времена именно тиран, угнетатель и эксплуататор облачался в мантию патриотизма, религии, или того и другого, чтобы обманывать и запугивать людей. Каждый из этих аристократических заговорщиков и потенциальных убийц претендует на звание архипатриота; каждый из них настаивает, что война ведется за то, чтобы сделать мир безопасным для демократии. Какой вздор! Какая гниль!
Какое ложное притворство! На протяжении всей истории войны велись ради завоеваний и грабежей. В средние века, когда феодалы решали расширить свои владения, увеличить свою власть, свой престиж и свое богатство, они объявляли войну друг другу. Но сами они принимали участие в войнах не больше, чем современные феодалы, бароны Уолл-Стрит. Все войны объявляли феодальные бароны средневековья, экономические предшественники капиталистов наших дней.
Debs would not be muzzled. At his sentencing, he told the judge he would not retract a word of his speech even if it meant he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. After a brief stint in the West Virginia Federal Penitentiary, he was sent to serve out his sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Cox , governor of Ohio, for the Democrats. Yet Debs did not let incarceration keep his message from the voters. In 1920, broadcast radio was not a factor in electioneering, but another electronic medium was just beginning to be exploited for political messaging. On May 29, 1920, in a carefully choreographed event, newsreel cameras filmed a delegation from the Socialist Party arriving at the Atlanta penitentiary to inform Debs officially of his nomination. The New York Times was aghast that a felon might canvass for votes from the motion picture screen. Public opinion turns On Nov. Debs was a distant third, but he had won 3.
Eugene Debs, the Espionage Act, and the Election of 1920
Shortly thereafter he became a locomotive fireman. In his capacity as a union leader, Debs worked tirelessly to organize the firemen, but soon came to realize that the other railroad crafts must also be organized in order for the firemen to have any real power. Thus, he then assisted in the organizing of the brakemen, switchmen, carmen and telegraphers among other crafts, into their respective craft unions. Not long after, Debs resigned his position as Secretary-Treasurer of the BLF despite the mass objection of the firemen rank and file.
After years of first hand experience with the failures of the old craft unionism, Debs was now firmly convinced of the need for this new advanced form of union — the industrial union — where all workers in the industry would be organized as a whole, as opposed to separated — and hence ineffectual — under the old outmoded craft union structure. The American Railway Union generated wide interest and support among the rail workers of North America. Rails were signing up at the rate of 2,000 a week, and within six months the new organization had 150,000 members!
He helped elect socialist mayors in some 70 cities, including Milwaukee, as well as numerous legislators and city council members. He propelled two socialists into Congress. In the elections of 1912 he received nearly a million votes, 6 percent of the electorate. Eighteen thousand people went to see him in Philadelphia and 22,000 in New York City. He terrified the ruling elites, who began to institute tepid reforms to attempt to stanch the growing support for the socialists. Debs after the 1912 election was a marked man. At first they were opposed by the people and denounced by the press. But it did not fail. Revolutions have a habit of succeeding when the time comes for them. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men. In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity.
I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all. This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth. There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order.
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Debs were shown and a video clip of Senator Bernie Sanders being interviewed about Mr. The historians responded to telephone calls and electronic communications from the home that Eugene Debs had built in 1890 and lived in until his death. Debs 1855-1926 , who founded several labor unio… read more Historians Ernest Freeberg and Lisa Phillips talked about the political career of Eugene V.