Miles B. Dunne

Released
Date of birth:11. 10. 1895
Date of death:06. 05. 1958
Age:62† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Minnesota
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Miles B. Dunne

Biography

Miles B. Dunne was president of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and a brother of labor organizers Vincent Ray and Grant Dunne. He helped lead the truck drivers’ union whose 1941 break with the Teamsters’ national leadership formed the background to the Minneapolis Smith Act prosecution. He testified at the federal trial. On December 1, 1941, the jury acquitted him on both counts. No Smith Act prison sentence was imposed; any brief pretrial custody has not been quantified.

Case

Charges: Smith Act advocacy charge and separate seditious-conspiracy count; Minneapolis prosecution of Socialist Workers Party and Local 544-CIO defendants.
Sentence: No sentence imposed in this prosecution. Acquittal is not used as a release date or evidence of a specific custody duration.
Judge: Matthew M. Joyce
Indicted: July 15, 1941.
Convicted: No

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