Emerson Daggett

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

Emerson Daggett, a reporter of the Seattle labor weekly Voice of Action, was charged with criminal libel in 1935 for the paper's exposures during the Northwest lumber strike.

Case

Charges: Charged with criminal libel.
Arrested: 1935
Sentence: Held on the criminal-libel charge. Charges as recorded: Charged with criminal libel over the Voice of Action's lumber-strike coverage.
Convicted: Prosecuted, 1935

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