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Bill Murdock

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Massachusetts
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Labor Organizing
Bill Murdock

Biography

Bill Murdock was an NTWU leader whose skull was fractured by police and who was held for deportation to Scotland in the 1931 Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike. In the 1931 strike of 23,000 textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, the National Textile Workers' Union leadership was mass-arrested and several foreign-born organizers were held for deportation to break the strike.

Case

Charges: Strike-related charges or deportation proceedings (Lawrence textile strike)
Arrested: 1931
Sentence: Held during the Lawrence strike; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held / faced deportation, 1931