Pat Devine

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

Pat Devine was the acting secretary of the NTWU, jailed for a year and facing deportation to Ireland in the 1931 Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike. In the 1931 strike of 23,000 textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, the National Textile Workers' Union leadership was mass-arrested and several foreign-born organizers were held for deportation to break the strike.

Case

U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta
Charges: Strike-related charges or deportation proceedings (Lawrence textile strike)
Arrested: 1931
Released: Dec 25, 1931
Sentence: Held during the Lawrence strike; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held / faced deportation, 1931
Institution State: Georgia
Security: Maximum

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