Immigrants poured in, including one Johann Dreiser from Germany, whose son, the great novelist Theodore Dreiser, was born in Terre Haute in 1871, the same year as the Paris Commune and the year that Debs, 16 years old, took up work as a locomotive fireman on the Vandalia Railroad.ĭebs, seated far left at age 14, when he began his work for the railroads as a shop painterĭebs later said he regretted leaving school, but it was natural for youth to be drawn to work on the trains, which embodied all the technology and excitement of the age, a “ Type of the modern-emblem of motion and power-pulse of the continent,” as Walt Whitman put it. The population increased sevenfold, from roughly 4,000 in the early 1850s to 30,000 in 1890, when Debs turned 35. Over the course of Debs’ youth, the railroads transformed the bucolic Wabash River town into a small industrial city. Other railroads followed, making Terre Haute into a transportation hub.

The first railroad reached his hometown, Terre Haute, Indiana, from Indianapolis, in 1852, three years before his birth to Alsatian immigrant parents, who named the boy Eugene Victor after French novelists Eugène Sue and Victor Hugo. Debs and the growth of the rail industryĭebs’ life was bound up with the rail industry. His long life-from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner-holds crucial lessons for today’s workers. Of particular importance is the life of the great socialist worker and railroader, Eugene V. Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.As railroad workers prepare for a confrontation against the corporations, the government and the union bureaucracies that falsely claim to “represent” them, they must learn from and grapple with their own history. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Mac, Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. Microsoft, Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox LIVE, Xbox Game Pass, the Xbox Logos and/or other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. (, PlayStation, 0, PlayStation 3, =, PlayStation 4, PS5 and PlayStation 5 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

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