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Joe Yelenics

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Communism
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Biography

Joe Yelenics was arrested with Anna Burlak in the 1929 red raid on a May-Day meeting of the Ukrainian Workingmen's Association at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and held under $5,000 bail on a sedition charge.

Case

Charges: Sedition (1929 raid on a May Day meeting, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Arrested: May 1929
Sentence: Held under \$5,000 bail on the sedition charge.
Convicted: Held for trial, 1929