Carl Swanson

Date of death:18. 09. 1919
Gender:Male
Era:1910s
State:Washington
Support
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Carl Swanson was an Industrial Workers of the World prisoner who died by suicide in Spokane County Jail on September 18, 1919. The IWW pamphlet With Drops of Blood records his death separately from that of Carl Swenson, another prisoner in the same jail. Historian Ahmed White also identifies Swanson and this date in Under the Iron Heel, placing the death in the wartime and postwar repression of IWW workers. The sources reviewed do not establish Swanson’s individual arrest date, precise charge, conviction or sentence.

Case

Charges: IWW-related detention in Spokane County Jail; individual charge unverified
Released: Sep 18, 1919
Sentence: Jail confinement is documented, but no individual conviction, sentence or incarceration start is established. Carl Swanson was an Industrial Workers of the World prisoner who died by suicide in Spokane County Jail on September 18, 1919. The IWW pamphlet With Drops of Blood records his death separately from that of Carl Swenson, another prisoner in the same jail. Historian Ahmed White also identifies Swanson and this date in Under the Iron Heel, placing the death in the wartime and postwar repression of IWW workers. The sources reviewed do not establish Swanson’s individual arrest date, precise charge, conviction or sentence.

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