James P. Thompson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Washington
Support
Anti-War Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

James P. Thompson, one of the founders of the IWW, from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago. He was sentenced to ten years in prison and a $30,000 fine and served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Sentence: Ten years in prison and a $30,000 fine. ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.
Institution State: Kansas

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