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E. P. Jennings

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

E. P. Jennings was a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania printer and civic leader who helped organize the Luzerne County Unemployed League and circulated a petition to impeach the anti-labor 'injunction judge' W. Alfred Valentine during the 1935 Glen Alden Coal Co. strike. He was arrested and framed on a charge of dynamiting the automobile of the judge's daughter after being lured to a hotel by a vanishing state informer.

Case

Charges: Framed on a dynamiting charge.
Arrested: 1935
Sentence: Held. Charges as recorded: Framed on a dynamiting charge during the anthracite unemployed movement.
Convicted: Arrested, 1935