Charles Bennett

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Oregon
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Charles Bennett

Biography

Charles Bennett, secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, Local 700, in Portland, Oregon, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to May 1919 and from April 1921 to June 25, 1923.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
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).
Institution State: Kansas

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