Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.

Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.

This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jury by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate Eugene Debs on September 12, 1918.

Note the compliance with a legal requirement of a representation that this work was a "true translation filed with the Post Master of Chicago, Illinois," presumably a requirement to prevent the insertion of seditious sentiments that would have been obvious in an English language version.

Debs had been arrested earlier in the year and charged under the Sedition Act for delivering an anti-war speech to a crowd of socialists and I.W.W.s in Canton, Ohio.

Adored by Italian socialists in the U.S., Debs chose to represent himself in his defense, and ended up serving three years in prison.

The Collection also has Debs' speech on May Day, 1919, while he is at the doors of the prison, "alla vigilia di essere relegato in prigione [on the eve of being banished into prison]," q.v.

Eugene Vittorio Debs

Federazione Socialista Italiana

1918

14 x 8.5cm; 16 p.

Italian