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George Casper

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Michigan
Support
Labor Organizing United Farmers League
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Biography

George Casper was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during the 1933 farm revolt. The farm revolt of 1933 — the Farmers' Holiday Association and the Communist-led United Farmers' League fighting mortgage foreclosures with penny auctions and picket lines — brought waves of arrests across the Midwest, many under state criminal-syndicalism laws.

Case

Arrested: 1933
Sentence: Jailed in the farm revolt; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held / convicted, 1933