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=Eugene Debs= Eugene Debs was an American Union leader. Debs was a member of the Democratic Party of the United States. When the ARU struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over pay cuts, President Grover Cleveland used the U.S army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was later imprisoned for failing to obey an injunction against the strike. Debs educated himself about socialism while in prison. He emerged to launch his career as the nation's most prominent socialist in the first decades of the 20th century.