Tom Johnson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Ohio
Support
Communism Labor Organizing National Miners Union
Tom Johnson

Biography

Tom Johnson, a Trade Union Unity League and Metal Workers' Industrial League organizer from Cleveland, was convicted under Ohio's criminal-syndicalism law for speaking and distributing leaflets at Martins Ferry and sentenced to 10 years. In 1929–30 Belmont County, Ohio prosecuted National Miners' Union and Trade Union Unity League organizers under the state's criminal-syndicalism law for distributing shop papers and speaking at mill and mine gates around Martins Ferry; the convictions carried five-to-ten-year terms and were appealed by the ILD.

Case

Charges: Criminal syndicalism (speaking and distributing leaflets at Martins Ferry, Ohio)
Arrested: Aug 1, 1929
Sentence: 10 years; conviction appealed by the ILD. Verdict as recorded: Convicted of criminal syndicalism, 1929–30
Convicted: Yes

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