October 20

Eugene V. Debs, U.S. labor leader and socialist, dies in Elmhurst, Ill.

Among his radical ideas: an eight-hour workday, pensions, workman's

compensation, sick leave and social security. He ran for president from a

jail cell in 1920 and got a million votes - 1926

_([29]The Bending Cross is a fascinating biography of Eugene V. Debs, a

labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the

heart and soul of the nation’s working people. A founder of one of the

nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to

help launch the Industrial Workers of the World

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