Eugene V Debs - Revolutionary Unionism

Debs felt that people needed to join together when working to advance society. He felt to truly have honesty and an equal society, industry workers need to work together to make society right for everyone. Debs felt that big buisness owners would be unfair to workers and for workers to have a job without being taken advantage of, workers needed to make unions. He felt that workers are being taxed to the point that they are forced to revolt. Debs said that workers are being taxed beyond the point of injustice. He said that people were being taxed without the protection that is promised from these taxes. Debs asked questions of the leaders of workers such as big buisness owners and trying to figure if these people were dishonest men. He asked if these men were true to the working class and if they had the workers interest in mind when they made decisions concerning them. He felt that not only were the leaders of industry dishonest and untruthful but he went as far to say that these men were the enemies of all workers united. He felt that in all history, the current fashion in which industry was being run was the worst it has ever been for the working people. Debs concluded that to change how industry and the relationship between workers and leaders was at that time the people didnt need to follow them but they needed to follow themselves and know exactly what to do for themselves and their individual situation.