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Eulalia Mendes

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Massachusetts
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Labor Organizing Communism
Eulalia Mendes

Biography

Eulalia Mendes was one of the women leaders of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, repeatedly arrested and prosecuted with the rest of the strike committee, as the ILD's Labor Defender reported.

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