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Form Group toPreserve HomeOf Gene DebsContinued From Page One.interested parties. Pledgestotaling SI.300 already have been received, it was understood.Organized Rail Union.The Socialist leader organized the American RailwayUnion in 1893 and served as its president for four years. In 1894, he led a strike movementwhich soon involved the railways leading into Chicago.Debs later was arrested on. a charge of conspiracy to kill, but was acquitted. After that, he was convicted of contempt of court lor violating an injunction, and was jailed for six months in 1895.He joined the Socialist Party in 1897 and ran for President in 1900. 1908 and 1912, but declined the nomination in 1916 He was an advocate of industrial unionism, although he disassociated himself from theIndustrial Workers of the World and was one of the chief; _ opponents of Samuel Gompers.Debs, w ho was born heres' Nov. 5, 1855, ano died in Elm- k hurst, 111., Oci. 19, 1926, at the age of 70 years, was graduatedjtl from the local public school it system in 1871 He then be- p came a locomotive fireman, vv In 1879 he was elected city .4 clerk of Terre Haute, and was is re-elected in 1881. He was con sidered a pacifist and in Sep tember, 1918, was convicted of.violating the Espionage Act andsentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. Ip 1912, while in:prison, he was again nominated Presidential candidate by the 0 Socialists and received 915,302votes. His sentence was com-jw muted by President Harding in slt; December, 1921, flt;Author oi many books, Debs jlt; was considered one of the fore- c most figures in American So- ti cialism. He served in the Indiana General Assembly in rw1885.
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 14, 1962
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