Eleanor Sadlowski

Released
Era:1920s
State:Illinois
Support
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
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Biography

Eleanor Sadlowski was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.

Case

Charges: Contempt of court — violating the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 Chicago garment strike
Incarcerated: 1926
Sentence: The June 19 report identifies her imprisonment in Cook County Jail. The June 25 report describes an unsuccessful proposal to shorten her reported forty-five-day sentence. Exact release remains unverified.

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