Biography
Rev. Douglas Roth was a Lutheran minister and labor-support activist in the Pittsburgh-area church and union conflict associated with the Network to Save the Mon/Ohio Valleys. The February 8, 1985 Militant identifies him as then imprisoned, reporting that he had been jailed in November after refusing the hierarchy’s order to give up his pulpit. It names Judge Emil Narick as having jailed Roth, Darrell Becker and others. The article places these jailings in the context of protests against union busting at Passavant Hospital and Dravo. It supplies no exact admission, final release or individual sentence length.
Rev. Douglas Roth was a Lutheran minister and labor-support activist in the Pittsburgh-area church and union conflict associated with the Network to Save the Mon/Ohio Valleys. The February 8, 1985 Militant identifies him as then imprisoned, reporting that he had been jailed in November after refusing the hierarchy’s order to give up his pulpit. It names Judge Emil Narick as having jailed Roth, Darrell Becker and others. The article places these jailings in the context of protests against union busting at Passavant Hospital and Dravo. It supplies no exact admission, final release or individual sentence length. Jailed in November and still reported imprisoned in February 1985; exact year/day of first entry and total actual service not printed directly.
