Biography
Pietro Pieri was an Italian Industrial Workers of the World prisoner identified by a contemporary Italian sailors’ solidarity letter. The New Solidarity reported in November 1919 that he had been convicted in Leavenworth, Kansas, on a charge of planning to kill federal officials and sentenced to three and one-half years. It reported his removal to the penitentiary while appeal bail of $7,000 remained pending. The solidarity letter described his case as part of the imprisonment of industrial organizers. Exact admission and release dates and the ultimate appeal outcome remain unresolved.
Pietro Pieri was an Italian Industrial Workers of the World prisoner identified by a contemporary Italian sailors’ solidarity letter. The New Solidarity reported in November 1919 that he had been convicted in Leavenworth, Kansas, on a charge of planning to kill federal officials and sentenced to three and one-half years. It reported his removal to the penitentiary while appeal bail of $7,000 remained pending. The solidarity letter described his case as part of the imprisonment of industrial organizers. Exact admission and release dates and the ultimate appeal outcome remain unresolved. Three and one-half years imposed according to The New Solidarity. The report explicitly says Pieri was removed to the Leavenworth penitentiary and had been held pending appeal with bail set at $7,000. It does not establish a completed three-and-one-half-year term or an actual bail-release date.
