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Today in labor history Nov 2 Labor leader Eugene Debs received nearly 1 million votes for President
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November 02

150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Wash. - 1909

November 2, 1920 - Labor leader Eugene V. Debs, nominee of the Socialist Party, received nearly 1 million votes for president – while running from a prison cell. “Convict #9653” had been jailed for opposing the first World War. He championed the rights of working people and the oppressed.

November 2, 1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating a federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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