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Michael Sapper

Released
Age:63
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#14806
State:New York
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Michael Sapper

Biography

Michael Sapper, an IWW delegate and organizer of oil field workers, from New York, New York, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, which he served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. The Department of Justice wrote that Sapper "should be permanently segregated from society" because of his political beliefs.

Case

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