Biography
Jos. B. Hart was a railway worker and IWW organizer detained in Olean, New York, from October 27 to October 30, 1919. In a signed account published in the December One Big Union Monthly, he said railway detectives targeted him after he distributed union literature. Police booked him for drunkenness and disorderly conduct the next morning, and a substitute justice imposed six months in the Erie County Penitentiary without allowing him counsel or a plea. Friends obtained a lawyer and delayed execution of the sentence. Hart was released on October 30 with a warning to leave Olean; the six-month penitentiary term was not actually served.
Jos. B. Hart was a railway worker and IWW organizer detained in Olean, New York, from October 27 to October 30, 1919. In a signed account published in the December One Big Union Monthly, he said railway detectives targeted him after he distributed union literature. Police booked him for drunkenness and disorderly conduct the next morning, and a substitute justice imposed six months in the Erie County Penitentiary without allowing him counsel or a plea. Friends obtained a lawyer and delayed execution of the sentence. Hart was released on October 30 with a warning to leave Olean; the six-month penitentiary term was not actually served.
Historical record; unknown custody endpoints remain blank.
Jos. B. Hart, One Big Union Monthly, December 1919, pages 56–57.
