W. H. Lewis

Released
Age:76
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Arizona
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
W. H. Lewis

Biography

W. H. Lewis, a miner and secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 800, in Miami, Arizona, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918, from September 1918 to June 1920 and from April 1921 to December 22, 1923.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Sentence: 5 years.

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