Herbert Mahler

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13166
State:Washington
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Herbert Mahler

Biography

Herbert Mahler, secretary of the IWW General Defense Committee and treasurer of the Everett Defense Committee, came from Seattle, Washington. He was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to hve years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918 and from September 1918 to May 14, 1922, when his sentence expired.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).

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