Today in Peace and Justice history on June 26, 1918 Pacifist and socialist organizer Eugene V. Debs was arrested . . .

Pacifist and socialist organizer Eugene V. Debs was arrested for having given an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, ten days earlier. He was charged with "uttering words intended to cause insubordination and disloyalty within the American forces of the United States, to incite resistance to the war . . . continued > http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm