Evelyn Dornfield

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

Evelyn Dornfield 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: June 1926
Released: 1926
Sentence: The June 15 and June 22 reports describe a ten-day term; the July 15 release report groups her with four pickets who completed thirty-day terms. Sustained confinement is verified, but the total remains unresolved.

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