Next year will be the 50th anniversary of his death and it would be most appropriate for the Senate to take the necessary action. as we have already done this year for Robert E. Lee. to restore citizenship to Eugene V. Debs. Debs was a native Hoosier. born in Terre Haute. Ind.. on November 5. 1855. the son of immigrants from the Alsace region of France. At the age of 15. he went to work for the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad and by February 1875 he was active in the organization of a lodge for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. This began his long career in the labor movement which was spent attempting to overcome the effects of poverty on the working men and women of America.
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