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Eugene Debs  

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  • The premier representative of native-born American socialism in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries was Eugene V. Debs. Debs was originally a labor union leader who made his reputation as an organizer of unskilled railway workers in the 1890s and as a champion of industrial unionism and workers' control. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Debs, Eugene V. (1855–1926)]

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