Biography
Frank Bodo was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after the July 1922 battle at the Cliftonville mine — a clash during the great coal strike in which striking union miners marched on a scab-run Panhandle mine and the county sheriff was killed. Around forty-nine men were convicted of conspiracy; Frank Bodo was sentenced to 10 years. The ILD's Labor Defender profiled the Cliftonville prisoners in October 1926, shortly before most of the group were released. The spelling of the miners' names follows that source.
1920s release review: The 1929 retrospective names this prisoner among those released in 1926, giving October. However, a contemporary September 17, 1926 dispatch already reports the Cliftonville releases and says only Joe Tracz remained. Its name spellings and list differ from the retrospective. The defensible shared precision is the year 1926; no exact month or day is asserted until the discrepancy is resolved. Sources: Daily Worker, September 19, 1926 scan, page 2, dispatch dated September 17; Daily Worker, August 14, 1929, page 6. Arrest and exact prison-admission dates remain unresolved.
