Lena Movich

Released
Era:1920s
State:Illinois
Support
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
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Biography

Lena Movich was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.

Case

Charges: Contempt of court — violating the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 Chicago garment strike
Incarcerated: June 1926
Sentence: The June 30, 1926 report says she had served a twenty-day term in Cook County Jail and was awaiting release. The exact release remains unverified.

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