Biography
Charles Spinak was a Union of Russian Workers member prosecuted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act for distributing radical literature. Robert W. Dunn's May1926 Labor Defender article says that he pleaded guilty under duress and served a three-to-five-year sentence. The exact admission and release dates and completed duration remain unknown. The account identifies him with anarchist and syndicalist labor politics.
Charles Spinak was a Union of Russian Workers member prosecuted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act for distributing radical literature. Robert W. Dunn's May1926 Labor Defender article says that he pleaded guilty under duress and served a three-to-five-year sentence. The exact admission and release dates and completed duration remain unknown. The account identifies him with anarchist and syndicalist labor politics. Three to five years imposed. The report explicitly describes service of that sentence, but supplies no exact custody endpoints or completed duration.
