Jan Wittenber

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Illinois
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Jan Wittenber was a coal-field ILD organizer, one of fourteen Progressive Miners of America defendants charged under Illinois's sedition law with "treason" at Hillsboro in 1934, with bail set at some half a million dollars.

Case

Charges: Charged with treason under Illinois's sedition law at Hillsboro.
Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Held under heavy bail; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held on the treason charge, 1934

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