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W. M. Garland

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kentucky
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

W. M. Garland was Aunt Molly Jackson's brother, jailed at Pineville with seven other miners on a criminal-syndicalism charge after demanding a checkweighman, held under $6,000 bond during the 1931–32 Kentucky coal war.

Case

Charges: Criminal syndicalism or weapons charges (Kentucky coal war)
Arrested: 1932
Sentence: Held during the Kentucky coal strike.
Convicted: Jailed in the Kentucky coal war, 1932