Charles Sotis

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

Charles Sotis was a Communist organizer of Chicago stockyards workers, beaten by police and charged with perjury on the claim that he was a Communist when he was naturalized; he was acquitted on a directed verdict in federal court in 1936.

Case

Charges: Charged with naturalization perjury.
Arrested: 1936
Sentence: Held for trial; acquitted. Verdict as recorded: Acquitted on a directed verdict, 1936 Charges as recorded: Charged with naturalization perjury for being a Communist, Chicago.
Convicted: No — acquitted

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