Eugene+V.+Debs

 Eugene Victor Debs was born in November 5, 1855; he died in October 20, 1926. He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World, as well as candidate for President of the United State as a member of the Social Democratic in 1900.

In the early part of his political career, Debs was a member of Democratic Party of the United State. It was during this time that he was elected as a member of the Indiana General Assembly, marking the beginning of his career as a politician. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), the nation's first industrial union.

As a member of the ARU, Debs was involved and later imprisoned for his part in the famed Pullman Strike, when workers struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over a pay cut. The effects of the strike resulted in President Grover Cleveland calling members of the United States Army into Chicago, Illinois, which led to Debs' arrest and imprisonment. Eugene V. Debs was one of the person who encourage the government, and the owner of the factory to give the employers the right to work 8th hours a day and have the weekends off