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To: JohnM who wrote (48842)6/5/2004 3:31:27 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 793888
 
Re E. V. Debs.....In 1920 a man in a jail cell in Atlanta, Georgia ran for the office of President of the United States and received about 3.5% of the vote. That man was Eugene V. Debs.

Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), a Terre Haute, IN native, ran for the office of United States president five times on the socialist ticket. The son of immigrant parents, Debs began working at age 14, scraping and painting railroad cars in the Terre Haute railyards for a daily wage of fifty cents. He worked in the railroad industry from 1869 to 1874 achieving a position as a locomotive fireman. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen made him an officer in the local lodge in 1875. Debs worked ceaselessly to build this organization and by 1880 was elected to Brotherhood's national office of secretary treasurer, also serving as editor of the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine.


Debs political career began as a Democrat. He served as Terre Haute City Clerk from 1880 to 1884 and was elected to the Indiana Legislature for the 1885-1887 term. Debs was increasingly drawn into the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen's growing militant efforts to improve labor conditions for the various craft-based brotherhoods. Soon Debs activities with the Democratic Party faded as he shifted his efforts to promoting collective bargaining for tradesmen. However, his efforts to promote bargaining across trade groups met with little success.
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