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#OtD 20 Oct 1926 US socialist and labour leader Eugene V. Debs died. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World union, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to World War I. Learn more about the @IWW: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww

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Six years before he died, Debs ran for president from a cell in the Atlanta Penitentiary. The campaign pins read "For President: Convict No. 9653." He took 914,191 votes (3.4%). The columns he wrote inside became Walls and Bars, his only book, published after his death.