Lowell Wakefield

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Washington
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Lowell Wakefield, the editor of the Seattle labor weekly Voice of Action, was charged with criminal libel in 1935 for the paper's exposures during the Northwest lumber strike.

Case

Charges: Charged with criminal libel.
Arrested: 1935
Sentence: Held on the criminal-libel charge. Charges as recorded: Charged with criminal libel over the Voice of Action's lumber-strike coverage.
Convicted: Prosecuted, 1935

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