The American Trade Unionist Who Went to Prison Over the Pullman Strike and Came Out a Socialist
Eugene V. Debs ran the American Railway Union into the Pullman strike of 1894, lost, went to prison for six months, read Karl Marx in his cell, and came out a socialist. He ran for president five times. The last campaign was conducted from a federal penitentiary, where he was serving ten years for opposing the First World War.
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