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Ray Baker

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Washington
Support
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Ray Baker was imprisoned at Washington State Penitentiary during Washington's criminal-syndicalism prosecutions of the IWW in the early 1920s. He appears on the International Labor Defense's rosters of American class-war prisoners in Labor Defender (1926-27); like most of the rank-and-file labor prisoners of the period, little else about his case entered the historical record.

Case

Washington State Penitentiary
Charges: Criminal syndicalism (Washington State IWW prosecutions, early 1920s)
Sentence: Held at Washington State Penitentiary (term and release date not documented). Verdict as recorded: Convicted (criminal-syndicalism era)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington