Frank Augusto

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Massachusetts
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Frank Augusto

Biography

Frank Augusto, a 62-year-old striker in the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, was beaten unconscious by police on the picket line and then sentenced to four months in jail — one of the elderly strikers whose treatment the ILD's Labor Defender publicized.

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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