Labor Quiz: Why Was Debs Jailed?

(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 military draft. Click here and you could be next week’s winner!

Last Week’s Quiz: A “scab herder” is someone who accompanies scabs into a struck workplace.