Hellraisers Journal: The Debs Red Special “will draw a red streak across the map and paint the towns red.”

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To speak for labor; to plead the cause
of the men and women and children who toil;
to serve the working class,
has always been to me a high privilege;
a duty of love.
-Eugene Victor Debs
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday August 17, 1908
The Socialist Party’s Red Special Will Criss-Cross Nation

From The Pittsburg Press of August 15, 1908:

Debs Red Special, Ptt Prs PA p2, Aug 15, 1908

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SOURCE & IMAGE
The Pittsburg Press
(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 15, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/142135436/

See also:

For more on the “Red Special” of 1908:
“The Tour of the Red Special”
by Charles Lapworth
International Socialist Review of December 1908
https://archive.org/details/TheTourOfTheRedSpecial1908

Tag: Red Special of 1908
https://weneverforget.org/tag/red-special-of-1908/

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