Edward Horacek

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Edward Horacek was one of ten workers arrested in a 1923 Pittsburgh red raid and indicted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act. Tried in late 1925, he was the first of the defendants found guilty; the International Labor Defense reported his conviction and appeal in the first issue of Labor Defender (January 1926).

Case

Charges: Indicted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act.
Arrested: April 1923
Sentence: Convicted under the Pennsylvania Sedition Act; disposition of the appeal not documented. Charges as recorded: Indicted under Pennsylvania's Sedition Act after the April 1923 Pittsburgh red raids; first of the ten defendants to be tried and found guilty.
Convicted: Found guilty, 1925; case appealed (Labor Defender, January 1926)

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