Eli Keller

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Massachusetts
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Labor Organizing Communism
Eli Keller

Biography

Eli Keller was one of the leaders of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike who, the ILD's Labor Defender reported, faced years of imprisonment in the mass conspiracy prosecutions the mill owners brought against the strike committee.

Case

Charges: Mass picketing (1928 New Bedford textile strike)
Arrested: 1928
Sentence: Served jail terms during the strike; the strike leaders faced mass conspiracy indictments.
Convicted: Repeatedly arrested and convicted, 1928

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