Oscar Swanson

Released
Date of birth:09. 03. 1871
Date of death:12. 05. 1951
Age:80† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Nebraska
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Oscar Swanson

Biography

Oscar Swanson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighteen months in local jails, all charges against him were dropped.

The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster lists an Omaha federal conspiracy indictment dated September 21, 1918, and bail of $10,000. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=20

Printed O. Swanson in Latchem’s Omaha roster: arrested November 13, 1917, indicted September 21, 1918, released December 13, 1918 on $1,000 bond. These are attributed individual endpoints, not a sentence length; release on bail is not dismissal.

The One Big Union Monthly, May 1920, vol. 2 no. 5, PDF page 55.

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Arrested: Nov 13, 1917
Incarcerated: Sep 20, 1918
Released: Dec 13, 1918
Sentence: Latchem reports November 13, 1917 arrest, September 21, 1918 indictment and December 13, 1918 release on $1,000 bond. No imposed term or complete actual custody total supplied.

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