Frank Westerlund

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13178
State:Minnesota
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 3 Months 5 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Frank Westerlund

Biography

Frank Westerlund, an IWW organizer from Duluth, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from January 23, 1918, to April 28, 1919, and from April 26, 1921, until his parole on October 20, 1922. Westerlund had a wife and one child.

Case

Cook County Jail and Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Incarcerated: Jan 23, 1918
Released: Apr 28, 1919
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.

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