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John Vargo

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

John Vargo was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prisoners — coal strikers and sedition-law defendants jailed in the Pittsburgh-district struggles — confined at the Allegheny County Workhouse in Blawnox, Pennsylvania.

Case

Allegheny County Workhouse
Charges: Sedition (Western Pennsylvania coal-strike sedition-law prosecutions)
Sentence: Held at the Allegheny County Workhouse.
Convicted: Imprisoned as of 1932
Institution State: Pennsylvania