Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) on Workers and Solidarity(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Socialist, Political Activist, Trade Unionist, Founding Member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Five Times the Presidental Candidate of the Socialist Party
: ....an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“I have waited, and I now stand ready to take by the hand every man, every woman that comes here, totally regardless of past affiliations, whose purpose it is to organize the working class upon the economic field, to launch that economic organization that shall be the expression of the economic conditions as they exist today...”
Source: "Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World," by Eugene V. Debs, Chicago, June 29, 1905, from: Industrial Workers of the World Founding Convention Minutes.
"Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World," by Eugene V. Debs, Chicago, June 29, 1905, from: Industrial Workers of the World Founding Convention Minutes.
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