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Adolf Wisnesski

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:New Jersey
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Adolf Wisnesski was a striker in the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strike who was accused in the strike's "bomb frame-up" and sentenced to not less than 5 nor more than 20 years in a New Jersey prison — one of some eight men imprisoned in the frame-up that followed the United Front Committee walkout led by Albert Weisbord.

Case

Charges: Accused in the Passaic textile-strike bomb frame-up.
Incarcerated: 1927
Sentence: Not less than 5 nor more than 20 years.
Convicted: Yes