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TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.

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