Today's Labor Quote: Eugene V. Debs

​“Socialism is a growing idea; an expanding philosophy. It is spreading over the entire face of the earth: it is as vain to resist it as it would be to arrest the sunrise on the morrow. It is coming, coming, coming all along the line. Can you not see it?”

Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs on this date in 1918 spoke in Canton, Ohio on the relation between capitalism and war. Ten days later he was arrested under the Espionage Act, and eventually sentenced to 10 years in jail. 

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