Joseph A. Oates

Released
Age:89
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13172
State:Arizona
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Joseph A. Oates

Biography

Joseph A. Oates, a miner from Globe, Arizona, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to May 14, 1922.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).

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