John I. Turner

Released

Date of birth:1865

Date of death:01. 01. 1934

Age:69^{† Deceased}

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1910s

State:Washington

Time Imprisoned:

4 Years 11 Months 11 Days

Support

Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Biography

John I. Turner, a lumberjack and an organizer and a delegate for the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, from Spokane, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He sewed in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from December 1917 to June 25, 1923. William E. van Amburgh, an IBSA member, began serving his sentence on June 21, 1918. (See also the entry for Giovanni De Cecca.)