While Debs had carefully guarded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he still had the intention and effect of obstructing the draft and military recruitment.

Many leaders of these groups, most notably Eugene V. Debs, were prosecuted for giving speeches urging resistance to the draft.

A gigantic assembly was planned in Cleveland, in which four parades of marchers, many waving red flags, would come together in the public square to hear speeches and rally for freedom for Eugene V. Debs and Tom Mooney and the adoption of the 6 hour day and the $ 1 minimum wage.

While Debs had carefully guarded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he had still shown the " intention and effect of obstructing the draft and recruitment for the war.

* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

** Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

One of the earliest invocations of the Act was in 1894, against the American Railway Union led by Eugene V. Debs, with the intent to settle the Pullman Strike.

As a leader of the ARU, Debs was later imprisoned for failing to obey an injunction against the strike.

In 1906, when Haywood had been on trial for his life in Idaho, Debs had described him as " the Lincoln of Labor " and called for Haywood to run against Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States., but times had changed and Debs, facing a split in the Party, chose to echo Hillquit's words, accusing the IWW of representing anarchy.

During World War I Debs was a subject of efforts by President Wilson to suppress dissent against the war.

The federal government secured a federal court injunction against the union, Debs, and the top leaders ordering them to stop interfering with trains that carried mail cars.

Civil as well as criminal charges were brought against the organizers of the strike and Debs in particular, and the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, In re Debs rejected Debs ' actions.

Young sets Debs ’ s character against a constellation of historical figures using the language and imagery of the period to present a most brilliant and unparalleled gallery: the widowed Mary Todd Lincoln, the poet James Whitcomb Riley ( the creator of Little Orphan Annie ), Eugene Field, Bill Nye, Joe Hill, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Clarence Darrow, among numerous others.

When the New York courts ruled decisively in favor of the claim of DeLeon, Kuhn, and the Regulars in the matter of the ownership of the name, logo, and publication of the Socialist Labor Party, against the claim of the dissidents, the Rochester group changed the name of their organization to " Social Democratic Party of America ," anticipating a rapid merger with Berger, Debs, and the Midwestern organization of the same name.

A " Red scare " in the United States was raised against the American Socialist Party of Eugene V. Debs and the Communist Party of America which arose after the Russian revolution from members who had broken from Debs ' party.

The railway managers took to the courts for relief, gaining a sweeping injunction against the ARU which was served upon union president Debs on July 2.

In 1992, LaRouche became the second person in U. S. history ( after Eugene Debs ) to run for President from a prison cellalthough Debs was generally considered a serious candidate and was in jail for his political beliefs ( against World War I ) rather than for fraud.

He lectured widely against capitalism, campaigned for the party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs in 1912, and founded the Colored Socialist Club ( the Socialist ’ s first effort at reaching African Americans ).

While its most prominent leaders, including Eugene V. Debs, were committed opponents of racial segregation, many in the Socialist Party were often lukewarm on the issue of racism, perceiving discrimination against black workers to be merely an extreme form of capitalist worker exploitation.

Despite official repression, popular patriotic pressure and vigilante action against the SP of A's organization, members and press, Hillquit never wavered on the issue of intervention, staunchly backing Debs, Berger, Kate Richards O ' Hare and other socialists charged under the Espionage Act for opposing the war effort.

The case against Debs was presented in a document entitled Anti-War Proclamation and Program showing that Debs's original intent was to openly protest against the war.

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs – The Election That Changed the Country.

Debs, a forceful World War I antiwar activist, had been convicted under sedition charges brought by the Wilson administration for his opposition to the draft during World War I.

Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the general election, winning a large majority in the Electoral College and 42 % of the popular vote, while his nearest rival, Roosevelt, won only 27 %.

In March 1919, President Wilson asked Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for his opinion on clemency for Debs but offered his own: " I doubt the wisdom and public effect of such an action.

At one point, Wilson wrote: " While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them .... This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration.

" In January 1921, Palmer, citing Debs ' deteriorating health, proposed to President Wilson that Debs receive a presidential pardon freeing him on February 12, Lincoln's birthday.

In 1921, in the closing weeks of the Wilson administration, Palmer asked the President to pardon imprisoned Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, whose health was said to be failing.

The Wilson administration conducted what were called the Palmer Raids, a wholesale crackdown on war dissidents and leftists that also swept up notable socialists such as Eugene V. Debs.

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* Booknotes interview with Chace on 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs — The Election That Changed the Country, August 29, 2004.

" Moreover, hours earlier, Debs had spoken with approval of an Anti-War Proclamation and Program adopted at St. Louis in April, 1917 which advocated a " continuous, active, and public opposition to the war, through demonstrations, mass petitions, and all other means within power.

" In 1924, Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Socialist Karl H. Wiik on the grounds that " Debs started to work actively for peace during World War I, mainly because he considered the war to be in the interest of capitalism.

He opposed the prosecution of Eugene V. Debs and other opponents of the war and played a key role in initiating the investigation of the Teapot Dome Scandal during the Harding Administration.

Foster also tempered his politics at this time: he not only did not publicly oppose the United States ' entry into the war, as Eugene V. Debs, Victor Berger and figures associated with the IWW had done, but helped sell war bonds in 1918.

In its ruling on Debs v. United States, the Court examined several statements Debs had made regarding the war.

Eugene Debs after release from prison by President Harding visited the White House.

In the US, Eugene V. Debs, one of the most famous American socialists, led a movement centered around democratic socialism and made five bids for President, once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.

Eugene Victor " Gene " Debs ( November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926 ) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies ), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

The President and his Attorney General both believed that public opinion opposed clemency and that releasing Debs could strengthen Wilson's opponents in the debate over the ratification of the peace treaty.

On December 23, 1921, President Harding commuted Debs ' sentence to time served, effective Christmas Day.

President Warren G. Harding pardoned Debs in December, 1921.

Muste was influenced by the prevalent theology of the social gospel began to read the written ideas of various radical thinkers of the day, going so far as to vote for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs for President of the United States in 1912.

Seidel then chose to run for Vice President of the United States on the Socialist ticket with Eugene V. Debs, and the pair won a respectable 901, 551 votes in the 1912 presidential election ( 6 % of the total ).

* Eugene V. Debs, Co-founder of the IWW and Socialist Party of America candidate for President

President of the ARU Eugene Debs delivered an address to the assembled delegates.

In 1900 Elliott ran for Congressman in Montana and Debs ran for President of the United States heading the Social Democratic Party ticket.

He served his sentence in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary from April 13, 1919, until December 1921, when President Harding commuted Debs ' sentence to time served, effective on December 25, Christmas Day.

The main character's name-sharing with Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States ( one of his candidacies occurred while he was in prison ), is explicitly discussed in the book.

The resulting battles were fierce: in Local 601, which represented Westinghouse workers in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and whose members had a tradition of radical politics dating back to Eugene V. Debs ' candidacy for President in 1912, the two factions were led by brothers Mike and Tom Fitzgerald, who attacked each other personally as vigorously as the factions did on political issues.

The Espionage and Sedition Acts were largely repealed in 1921, and on December 25, 1921 President Warren G. Harding pardoned Debs from prison.

Eugene V. ( Victor Debs ) Rostow ( August 25, 1913 – November 25, 2002 ), influential legal scholar and public servant, was Dean of Yale Law School, and served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President Lyndon B. Johnson.