Ifound the labor union known as the industrial workers of the world. i became a leading socialist. i argued that the public and workers should own and run the most important and largest businesses in the country. who am i?

The correct answer to the question: Who am I, is: Eugene V. Debs.

Explanation:

Eugene V. Debs, born in 1855 and died in 1926, was a really devoted socialist activits and labor organizer who was best known for his involvement in the labor strikes, and labor movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. His work as a labor revolutionary and socialist initiated in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, but he was best known for his organization of several labor movements in the United States, like the American Railway Union, and most famously, the still active Industrial Workers of the World. Eugene V. Debs faced jailtime for his beliefs on labor union and socialism and ran as presidential candidate four times, against Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Although he never won an election, he did represent, with his 1 million votes, that people in America shared at least some of his views on the rights of laborers.