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Chase Powers

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Colorado
Support
Labor Organizing Communism
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Biography

Chase Powers was a leader of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union convicted in Denver in December 1959 of conspiracy to file false non-Communist Taft-Hartley affidavits, in the federal case the union fought as union-busting.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to file false Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavits
Sentence: Convicted of the Taft-Hartley conspiracy charge Verdict as recorded: Convicted in Denver December 17, 1959
Convicted: Yes