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Debs Life Shaped by Rail Work and Labor Fight
A biographical sketch traces Eugene V. Debs from Terre Haute Indiana born 1855 on Guy Fawkes day. It follows his rise from paint shops to locomotive fireman and editor, his 1884 state legislature service, and 1898 founding of the American Railway Union with commentary from the Chicago Record and letters from Mary Lease and a Dublin Indiana uncle on labor and finance.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
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