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1 online resource (613 pages)
ISBN:
9781642590883
Content:
This massive six volume set gathers together the most important spoken and written words of Debs for the first time, allowing a deeper understanding of radical political opposition in America during the first quarter of the twentieth century
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Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1897 -- Present Conditions and Future Duties: An Open Letter -- "I Am with the Miners in their Present Trouble": Speech in Leadville, Colorado [excerpt] -- The World Is Not Right: Speech in Butte, Montana -- Strike Lessons: A Dispassionate Review of the Great Leadville Struggle -- Harmony and Unity-and Their Limits -- The New Commonwealth: Letter to the Editor of the New York Journal -- Solidarity of Western Miners Essential -- The Coronado Mine Attack -- The Degradation of Mine Labor -- The Constitution Says People May Bear Arms: Statement to the Press in Salt Lake City -- The Coming Republic -- An Anniversary Retrospective of the Great Leadville Strike -- The Cooperative Commonwealth -- Labor's New Eden: Interview with the Chicago Chronicle -- Opening Address at the Special Convention of the American Railway Union in Chicago -- A Million Altruists Will Be Organized: Letter to the Editor of the New York World -- Farmers Will Form the Vanguard: Statement to the Chicago Chronicle -- Open Letter to John D. Rockefeller -- Closing Speech at the Founding Convention of the Social Democracy of America [excerpt] -- Statement on the Colonization of Washington -- The Social Democracy Is a Political Movement: Statement to the Milwaukee Daily News -- Women in the Movement: Interview with Dorothy Richardson -- The Coal Miners' Strike -- Plea for a New Order: Speech at Ferris Wheel Park, Chicago -- No Hope but through the Back Door of Suicide: Speech on the Coal Miners' Strike, Wheeling, West Virginia -- The Social Democracy -- Press Release on the Forthcoming St. Louis Conference of Labor Leaders -- To the Hosts of the Social Democracy: A Message for Labor Day -- "I Plead Guilty to the Charge of Being Radical": Speech to the St. Louis Labor Conference -- The Lattimer Massacre
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Statement to the Press Regarding the Suspension of Chicago Local Branch No. 2 -- We Cannot Hope to Succeed by Violence: Speech to Local Branch 1 SDA, Chicago [excerpt] -- Keynote Speech to the Chicago Conference of Labor Leaders [excerpt] -- The Approaching Elections -- Workingmen and the Social Democracy -- The Indiana Coal Miners -- 1898 -- The Martyred Apostles of Labor -- Words of Old Coinage -- "I Love Humanity Better than I Do Gold": Speech at Coliseum Hall, Denver [excerpt] -- Against Fusion -- Letter to Victor L. Berger about the Forthcoming Convention of the SDA -- Edward Bellamy Was a Friend of Mine -- The Coming Nation: Speech at the Grand Opera House, Terre Haute [excerpt] -- This Is Not a War of Humanity: Floor Speech at the First National Convention of the Social Democracy -- Declination of Office in the Social Democracy of America at the First National Convention -- The Only Thing I Fear Is Ignorance: Speech at the First National Convention of the Social Democracy of America at Chicago [excerpt] -- The Future: An Open Letter -- Socialism Advances into the Arena -- The Dollar Counts for Everything: Speech in Springfield, Massachusetts [excerpt] -- An End to War-A Start to Militarism -- Gratifying Results: An Open Letter to Local Branches of the SDP -- 1899 -- Labor and Liberty: Speech in Saginaw, Michigan -- Socialism or Capitalism? Open Letter to R. S. Thompson, Chairman of the Union Reform Party -- Prison Labor-Its Effects on Industry and Trade: Address to the Nineteenth Century Club in New York City -- Tribute to Robert G. Ingersoll -- The National Convention -- The Workers and the Trusts -- Scattered Topics -- Signs of Social Revolution -- The Future Is Bright -- The National Labor Party: Interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- "I Will Not Be a Candidate for President": Interview in LaPorte, Indiana [excerpt]
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More Than a Municipal Campaign: Speech in Haverhill, Massachusetts -- 1900 -- The Hour for Unity Has Not Yet Arrived: Letter to the Social Democratic Herald -- A Revolutionary Party -- Speech Accepting the Nomination for President of the United States -- Trade Unions and Politics -- The Issues of Unity -- Union Must Be a Mutual Affair: Remarks at the Second Unity Conference, New York City [excerpt] -- Social Democrats, Stand Pat! -- No Organic Union Has Been Effected -- Letter of Acceptance of the Nomination for President by the Springfield Social Democratic Party -- Letter to Frederic Heath in Milwaukee [excerpt] -- Declination of Nomination for the National Executive Board of the SDP -- Wilhelm Liebknecht, the People's Tribune -- Socialist Sentiment is Spreading: The Program of the Social Democratic Party -- Outlook for Socialism in the United States -- The Essence of Social Democracy -- Working Together in Unison: An Open Letter to J. B. Smiley of Chicago -- Warning Notice -- The Democratic Party Will Not Destroy Us: An Open Letter to Lewis A. Russell of Cleveland -- Competition vs. Cooperation: Speech at Central Music Hall, Chicago -- Three Classes, Three Parties: Campaign Speech in Cincinnati, Ohio -- Doomed to Disappointment: An Open Letter to Samuel M. Jones -- A Final Word -- Progress of the Social Revolution -- A Word About the "Independent" -- Martin Irons, Martyr -- 1901 -- The Approaching Convention -- As to "Hissing Snakes": Letter to the Editor of The People -- Fraud and Imposture at Modern Funerals -- Carnegie Libraries-Monuments of Degeneracy -- Socialists Who Would Emasculate Socialism and Other Matters -- The Climax of Capitalism -- The July Convention -- The Mission of Socialism Is as Big as the World: Speech to Third Annual SDP Picnic, Chicago -- Telegrams to the Joint Unity Convention Founding the Socialist Party of America
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"They May Shelve Me If They Like": Statement to the Philadelphia Times -- A United, Harmonious, and Enthusiastic Party: Letter to the Editor of The Worker -- The Indianapolis Convention: Letter to the Editor of the Social Democratic Herald -- Statement to the Press on the Shooting of President William McKinley -- The War for Freedom -- 1902 -- Peace, Peace, There Is No Peace! -- Battle Cry of Superstition -- Altgeld the Liberator -- No Compromise with Slavery: May Day Speech in St. Louis [excerpt] -- The Pennsylvania Coal Strike Is On -- No Masters, No Slaves: Keynote Address to the Joint Convention of the Western Federation of Miners and Western Labor Union -- Go into Politics the Right Way: Speech to the Joint Convention of the Western Federation of Miners and Western Labor Union [excerpt] -- Socialism on Every Tongue: Open Letter to the Social Democratic Herald -- Capitalism Has Nearly Reached Its Climax: Speech to a Mass Meeting Following the Joint Convention of the WFM and the WLU in Denver -- The Inevitable War of the Classes -- Politics-Democratic and Republican: Interview with the Spokane Spokesman-Review [excerpt] -- Progressive Trade Unionism -- A Narrow Escape: Letter to the Social Democratic Herald -- My Near Escape: Letter to Julius Wayland of the Appeal to Reason -- How He Stopped the Blacklist -- Jesse Cox: An Appreciation -- The Barons at the White House -- What's the Matter with Chicago? -- The Western Labor Movement -- A Year of Trial for the Western Federation of Miners -- 1903 -- Auguries for the New Year -- The Arbitration Farce -- Socialism the Trend of the Times -- The Social Crusaders -- Socialism and Civilization: Speech at Rochester, New York [excerpt] -- Socialism's Steady Progress -- Frederic O. MacCartney Belongs to the Living -- Labor and the Race Question -- Class-Conscious Courts
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Capital and Labor: Parasites and Hosts -- Society Must Reap What It Sows: Interview with the Terre Haute Gazette -- The Growth of Unionism in America -- Wayland and the Appeal to Reason: From Obscurity to Fame -- Crimes of Capitalism -- Teddy's Stab at Unionism -- A Word to the Young -- Graft vs. The Same Thing -- The Negro in the Class Struggle -- Reminiscences of Myron W. Reed -- Fixed Conventions and Costly Courts -- As to True Brotherhood: An Open Letter to the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees -- How Long Will You Stand It? Speech at Chicago Coliseum [excerpt] -- 1904 -- The Negro and His Nemesis -- Mayor Jones and "All the People" -- Why Peabodyism Exists -- The Coal Strike Surrender -- Darrow, Hearst, and the Democrats -- Crimes of Capitalism in Colorado -- An Ideal Labor Press -- Speech Accepting the 1904 Presidential Nomination of the Socialist Party of America -- Our First National Campaign: Interview with the Terre Haute Sunday Tribune -- Stray Leaves from an Agitator's Notebook -- Unionism and Socialism: A Plea for Both -- The Independence Depot Bombing: A Case of Capitalist Infernalism -- The Anniversary of Class War in Colorado -- The American Movement -- Moving Toward Socialism -- Face to Face -- The Socialist Party and the Working Class: Opening Campaign Speech in Indianapolis -- The Pressing Need -- The Tragedy of Toil -- Use Your Brains in Your Own Interest -- Socialists Making Unprecedented Gains: Telegram to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- It Ought Not Be Difficult to Decide: Campaign Speech at Chicago Auditorium -- Advice to First Voters -- The Swing of Victory -- The Lessons of the 1904 Election -- The Democratic Party Has Been Practically Eliminated: Telegram to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- Known by Its Fruits -- Appendix -- Special Convention Forthcoming: From ARU Circular Letter No. 3 (1897) [excerpt]
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To Members of the Social Democracy of America: A Circular Letter from the Social Democratic Party of America
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davenport, Tim The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Vol. III La Vergne : Haymarket Books,c2020
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English
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