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Danny Roxas

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Danny Roxas

Biography

Danny Roxas, a farm worker activist and IWW officer, received a three- to forty-two-year prison sentence for violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Act and served in San Quentin from June 1930 to July 1932. He was secretaiy of the Agricultural Workers Industrial League and a leader of the Imperial Valley farm workers strike of 1930. (See also the entry for Lawrence Emery.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Sentence: 3 to 42 years; served June 1930 to July 1932 Verdict as recorded: Yes — criminal syndicalism (California); all eight paroled or released by 1933
Convicted: Yes