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Irving Aarons

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Irving Aarons was an organizer for Local 1250 of the Department Store Employees Union and one of five leaders indicted for criminal conspiracy in the December 1935 strike against May's Department Store in Brooklyn, under New York's revived 1836 anti-conspiracy statute; he was held on $1,000 bail facing up to three years.

Case

Charges: Indicted for criminal conspiracy under New York's revived 1836 statute in the May's Department Store strike.
Arrested: December 1935
Sentence: Held on $1,000 bail; faced up to three years.
Convicted: Indicted / held, 1935