Vincent Kemenovich

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kentucky
Time Imprisoned:
3 Months 12 Days
Support
Communism Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

Vincent Kemenovich was a National Miners' Union organizer, jailed in the 4 January 1932 raid on the National Miners' Union headquarters at Pineville, Kentucky and charged with criminal syndicalism. On 4 January 1932 Kentucky officers raided the National Miners' Union Southern District headquarters at Pineville, in Bell County, and jailed the staff on criminal-syndicalism charges during the Harlan–Bell coal strike; each faced twenty-one years. Held in the Pineville jail and later moved to Harlan, they were freed after a national ILD campaign.

Case

Harlan County Jail
Charges: Criminal syndicalism — jailed in the January 4, 1932 raid on the National Miners' Union Southern District headquarters at Pineville, Kentucky (Bell County).
Arrested: Jan 4, 1932
Incarcerated: Jan 4, 1932
Released: Apr 16, 1932
Sentence: Held in the Pineville and Harlan jails; freed on ILD defense. Verdict as recorded: Indicted for criminal syndicalism; held at Pineville and then Harlan, and freed on April 16, 1932 (one of the last three released) pending trial set for May 1932. Charges as recorded: Criminal syndicalism — jailed in the January 4, 1932 raid on the National Miners' Union Southern District headquarters at Pineville, Kentucky (Bell County), during the Harlan–Bell coal strike. Each of those seized faced up to twenty-one years.
Convicted: No — pending trial
Institution State: Kentucky

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