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Harold Bowers

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Harold Bowers was a New York ILA longshore leader jailed for six months for contempt in 1954 over his role in a waterfront strike. The prosecutions accompanied the government drive against the dock unions.

Case

Charges: Contempt —.
Sentence: Six months. Verdict as recorded: Convicted of contempt (1954). Charges as recorded: Contempt — for leading an ILA waterfront strike.
Convicted: Yes