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M. Dizdar

Released
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

M. Dizdar was the International Labor Defense representative in Farrell, Pennsylvania. A worker correspondent’s report in the Daily Worker of July9,1930 describes police taking her to city hall, inspecting the literature she sold and questioning her about prisoner-defense work. Officers released her after about an hour and a half because they could not press charges, while warning her against distributing labor literature to Black workers. The report does not supply her full first name or exact detention day.

Case

Charges: Questioning over labor literature and International Labor Defense activity; no charges filed.
Sentence: Held approximately one and a half hours, then released.