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Harry Breen

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Kansas
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Harry Breen was arrested during a union drive in Wakeeney, Kansas, on July 9, 1920. He received a thirty-year prison sentence for being a member of the IWW. (Recorded as Harry Breen organized farm workers for the IWW and)

White describes a WaKeeney Kansas IWW organizing prosecution and a thirty-year imposed sentence following admission of membership and use of union literature. White gives July8,1920 as arrest day, while the existing record gives July9; no date is replaced on this conflicting account.

Ahmed A. White, The Crime of Economic Radicalism, Oregon Law Review85(2006),649; physical PDF pages[86]; SHA256 5dce4fe1865093ab1e1cde780b2604f9f3577c45e05095bb91c4bc99e46fb38c.

Case

Charges: Violation of Kansas criminal-syndicalism law; IWW membership and organizing.
Arrested: Jul 9, 1920
Released: Sep 4, 1922
Sentence: Thirty years in prison.