Labor Quiz: Why Was Debs Jailed?
Monday, October 15, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Eugene V. Debs ran for president from a jail cell in 1920 and got a million
votes; why was he jailed? For leading a strike against the Pullman Palace Car
Company; for being a Socialist; for urging resistance to the World War I
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Last Week’s Quiz: A “scab
herder” is someone who accompanies scabs into a struck workplace.