John M. Lynch

Released
Full name:John Lynch
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:West Virginia
Support
United Mine Workers of America
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Biography

John M. Lynch was a West Virginia coal miner serving a ten-year sentence at the Moundsville penitentiary on what he and the ILD described as a frame-up growing out of the mine wars — listed on the International Labor Defense's 1929 roster of class-war prisoners.

Case

West Virginia State Penitentiary
Charges: Framed, by his account, out of the West Virginia mine wars.
Sentence: Ten years at the Moundsville penitentiary.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: West Virginia

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