Archie Sinclair

Released
Date of birth:22. 10. 1890
Date of death:15. 06. 1970
Age:79† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13141
State:Minnesota
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Archie Sinclair

Biography

Archie Sinclair, a laborer and a writer for Solidarity and The Industrial Worker, from Bemidji, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served eleven months in the Cook County Jail and four years and five months in Leavenworth Penitentiary. He was released on the condition that he would be deported. Sinclair had joined the IWW in 1914.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Sentence: Ten years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).

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