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Bob Wirtz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Illinois
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Bob Wirtz was the local secretary of the International Labor Defense in Chicago, prosecuted on criminal-contempt-of-court charges in March 1940 as a co-defendant alongside editor Louis Budenz and ILD national vice-president William L. Patterson, over public protest against a judge's anti-labor injunction.

Case

Charges: Criminal contempt (protest against an anti-labor injunction)
Arrested: March 1940
Sentence: Prosecuted for contempt.
Convicted: Charged, 1940