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Socialist Progressives

Omaha Steve

(103,510 posts) Thu Nov 5, 2015, 07:56 PM Nov 2015

11-5-15 Birth of a Labor Giant in 2:00 (and a socialist against WWI)

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/november-5-birth-of-a-labor-giant/

November 5, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1855. That was the day that Eugene Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. Debs was forced to leave school when he was just fourteen. He worked as a railroad fireman.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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