Biography
Ernest Giuliani was a Westville, Illinois miner prosecuted with John Sloan and Frank Suchaczewski in 1938. After vigilante raids against local labor organizers, Sheriff Harry George charged the three men under Illinois’s criminal syndicalism law for distributing a leaflet opposing vigilante violence and calling for a public meeting. Giuliani was held in jail. At the February 3 preliminary hearing, Justice of the Peace Ben Seibert referred the case to the grand jury. Local supporters posted $6,000 bail, and the three miners were released.
Sasha Small prints his surname as Guiliani and identifies him with Frank Suchaczewski and John Sloan among the jailed Illinois criminal-syndicalism defendants; this spelling denotes the existing co-defendant, not a new profile. New Masses, February 22, 1938, PDF page 12. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1938/v26n09-feb-22-1938-NM.pdf#page=12
Lillian Goodman of the International Labor Defense corroborates the February 3, 1938 preliminary hearing before Justice Ben Seibert, the referral to the grand jury, and immediate physical release after local friends posted $6,000 bail collectively for all three miners. The complaint signed by Sheriff Harry George relied on a leaflet condemning vigilante violence and calling a public meeting; the letter says all eight prosecution witnesses belonged to the American Patriotic Club. The group bail sum is not an individual amount. New Masses, March 8, 1938, PDF page 23. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1938/v26n11-mar-08-1938-NM.pdf#page=23
