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Shorty Stevenson

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

Shorty Stevenson was a Steel Workers' Organizing Committee leader arrested with roughly 200 strikers on June 22, 1937 in the Youngstown, Ohio Little Steel strike. He was jailed for allegedly carrying a gun he 'had never seen until the sheriff offered it in evidence' and released on $5,000 bail.

Case

Charges: Gun possession (allegedly planted weapon; Youngstown Little Steel strike)
Arrested: Jun 22, 1937
Sentence: Held on $5,000 bail.
Convicted: Arrested, 1937