Nick Steelik

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Nick Steelik was an IWW organizer from Los Angeles. Nick Steelik was arrested on September 19, 1919, for ''willfully" advocating, teaching, aiding and abetting criminal syndicalism by "spoken and written word." He was sentenced to five years in prison and served in San Quentin from April 1920 to June 1922. As in other criminal syndicalism cases, there was "no evidence" of the "consummation of any crime" except the fact that Steelik was an "authorized organizer" of the IWW and "advocated revolution."

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: California prosecution under the state Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919.
Arrested: Sep 19, 1919
Incarcerated: April 1920
Released: June 1922
Sentence: Five years in prison (California criminal syndicalism conviction).
Institution State: California

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