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...GREEN PASTURES?If the Lord were a kindly old Negro preacher; if Gabriel were a Pullman porter (TIME, March...
EUGENE V. DEBS?Me Alister Coleman ?Grcenbcrg ($3.50). From the sultry summer of 1894 when he led the great Pullman strike in Chicago to the bitter Christmas Eve in 1921 when he walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire with vituperation. Five times was he a candidate for President...
...Sobriety, Industry"), rose to leadership in this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor Berger...
...often gets control and sweeps him into passages of sloppy panegyrics. The story is the story of Debs, human, flashing, courageous, a great personality, right or wrong, and not the story of So cialism in the U. S. Skillfully has Biog rapher Coleman dramatized the Haymarket riots, the Pullman strike, the ''Red Special" campaign, the dark days at Atlanta. He can almost be excused for skimping over Debs' whiskey drinking and the "free love" scandals of Socialism. The Author. Me Alister Coleman, 42, New York City Socialist, was a newsman for four years on the New York Sun. Pub licity...
...banjo, also the zither the xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money on the side. But now you may walk into a pullman car on one of the overland limiteds and see a bunch of them sitting around, looking bigger in their store clothes than on the field, sunburned from the Florida training season, playing bridge or poker, drinking charged water or ginger ale with nothing in it. For last week the big league...