Socialists

Scope and Contents This collection includes one pamphlet of the "Ballad of Gene Debs" created by Sarah N. Cleghorn and published by The Driftwood Press in North Montpelier, Vermont in July 1928, regarding the arrest and trial of Eugene V. Debs in 1918 for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 after his criticism of America's involement in World War I.

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of correspondence of Socialist Party Executive Secretary Otto Branstertter, with and regarding Debs during 1920–1923, including letters regarding amnesty for Debs and other people imprisoned for their opposition to World War 1, as well as letters regarding Socialist Party politics and Debs role in the party following his release from prison. Also included are Debs’ writings on the labor movement, his essay on Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922), statements of Debs...