Bertha Plantt

Released
Era:1920s
State:Illinois
Support
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
No image available

Biography

Bertha Plantt was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.

Case

Charges: Contempt of court — violating the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 Chicago garment strike
Incarcerated: 1926
Released: June 1926
Sentence: Held in Cook County Jail during June 1926. The June 19 account describes her imprisonment; the June 22 account reports release after serving her sentence. Individual term length remains unverified.

Related Cases

Minnie Seidel Minnie Seidel Lillian Greenberg Lillian Greenberg Vanda Kaleto Vanda Kaleto Jennie Miller Eva Jacobs Jennie Chanin Sara Schneider Esther Richman