Eugene Debs and Alternative Forms of Unionism 1901-1924
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Eugene Debs and Alternative Forms of Unionism 1901-1924
Eugene Debs
•Born 1855 (5 yrs younger Gompers)
• Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen• American Railway Union 1892 = industrial union • Pullman Strike 1894• Jailed for “Conspiracy”• Socialist Party 1901
Labor’s Heritage, vol. 2 No. 4
The “Red Special”
Labor’s Heritage, vol. 2 No. 4
The Red Special presidential campaign train, Nov.2, 1908. Both Debs and “Big Bill” Haywood are incenter of photograph.
Patterson Strike•Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (not International Workers of World)
• Patterson, NJ, Silk City
• John Reed & “Parlor Socialists
• Large Immigrant workforce
• Management vs. IWW vs. Textile Workers AFL vs. Immigrant Workforce