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Joe Neil

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Kansas
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Joe Neil, an IWW member, was incarcerated in the insane ward of the Kansas State Penitentiary (from 1922 to 1928) for violating a Kansas criminal syndicalism law prohibiting FWW membership.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.