Massachusetts

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Johanna Reir

Released

Johanna Reir was among three workers arrested in a raid on the National Textile Workers Union office in Lawren...

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Antone Ries

Antone Ries was a New Bedford textile striker reported in a police cell by the July 26, 1928 Daily Worker. The...

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John J. Roberts

Released

John J. Roberts was arrested in Boston on May 26, 1854, during the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns from rend...

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Jacob Robsco

Jacob was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike rep...

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Irene Rockwell

Irene Rockwell, reported as 23 years old, was arrested in Boston for distributing leaflets to marine workers....

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John D. Rollins

Released

John D. Rollins appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

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Anthony Romano

Anthony was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike r...

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Charles Rose

Released

Charles Rose was a participant in Shays’ Rebellion who, with John Bly, was hanged at Lenox, Massachusetts, on...

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Paul Rosenkrantz

Released

Paul Rosenkrantz was a former Communist Party member who began serving a three-month contempt-of-Congress sent...

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Sam Ross

Sam Ross was arrested Saturday morning, September 17, 1932 and accused of assault during the Boston sheepskin...

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Vern Rossman

Released

Vern Rossman was arrested on November 24, 1983. Vern Joseph Rossman was a Christian Church (Disciples of Chri...

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Martin Russak

Released

Martin Russak was the New Bedford district organizer of the National Textile Workers Union arrested at the Bea...

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Joseph Russo

Released

Joseph Russo of Boston was indicted under the Smith Act membership clause, which criminalized knowing membersh...

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Michael Russo

Released

Michael A. Russo was one of the Massachusetts "Bay State Reds" — the Communist Party members arrested in 1956...

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Frederick Rutan

Frederick Rutan, called Eric Rutan in the same contemporary account, was an Army soldier who refused deploymen...

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Salvatore Salafia

Salvatore was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike...

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William Sarti

William was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike r...

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John Sassato

John Sassato was an active Agricultural Workers League member arrested during the 1931 cranberry pickers’ stri...

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Jack Seery

Jack Seery served 10 days after a 1986 peace-leafleting protest at Draper Laboratories.

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Angelo Sergi

Angelo was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike re...

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Jonathan Sewall

Released

Jonathan Sewall was a Massachusetts former attorney general. He was individually named in the 1778 Massachuset...

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Harry Simon

Harry was a worker arrested during the 1931 Lawrence textile strike. The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike rep...

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Donald M. Smith

Donald M. Smith was a Bates College Socialist student who helped organize a League for Industrial Democracy ch...

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John Discoe Smith

In Exile

John Discoe Smith was a State Department communications technician and code clerk who served at the U.S. Embas...