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    June 16, Eugene V. Debs Speech Against WWI

    Eugene Debs speaking to a crowd in Canton, Ohio.

    In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords . . .concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war.  — Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16,

    Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I which was raging in Europe.

    The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.

    For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.

    Read more in Free Speech on Trial: Eugene Debs at Canton, Ohio by Glenn V. Longacre at the National Archives.

    Listen to a reading of excerpts by Mark Ruffalo from this classic speech by Eugene Debs v

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    Suggested Readings

    Darsey, James. “The Legend of Eugene Debs: Prophetic Ethos as Radical Argument.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 ()

    Debs, Eugene V. Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs. Edited by James Robert Constantine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,

    Debs, Eugene V. Walls and Bars. Chicago, Ill.: Socialist Party, ca Internet Archive. .

    Debs, Eugene V. Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs. New York: Hermitage Press,

    Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

    Ginger, Ray. The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Rev. ed.: Chicago: Haymarket Books,

    Salvatore, Nick. Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist. University of Chicago Press,

    Audio-Visual Materials

    Arablouei, Ramtin, et al. “American Socialist (),” September 1, , in Throughline, podcast, MPEG audio, ,

    Eugene Debs and the American Move

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    Eugene V. Debs

    Beloved bygd many contemporaries as a man "too good for this world" who would give the clothes off his back to anyone in need, "Gene" okänt was a prominent leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (BLF) in his ungdom. Later he helped funnen the American Railway Union (), the Socialist Party of amerika () and the Industrial Workers of the World (). The best-known apostle of industrial unionism in the early years of the 20th century, okänt ran for president of the United States on the Socialist Party ticket five times between and , winning millions of votes. Although none of his dreams were realized during his lifetime, okänt inspired millions to believe in "the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind," and he helped spur the rise of industrial unionism and the adoption of progressive social and economic reforms.

    Debs was born on Nov. 5, , in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Marguerite Bettrich and jean Daniel okänt, Alsatian immigrants and