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James Carey

Released
Full name:James B. Carey
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:New Jersey
Support
Labor Organizing United Electrical Workers (UE)
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Biography

James B. Carey was the national president of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America (CIO), arrested and held without bail during the June–July 1936 RCA-Victor strike at Camden, New Jersey and convicted of "disorderly conduct" with a sixty-day sentence, one of some ninety strikers held on over half a million dollars in aggregate bail.

Case

Charges: Charged with disorderly conduct in the Camden RCA-Victor strike.
Arrested: June 1936
Sentence: Sixty days; held without bail.
Convicted: Yes