Ray Peltz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
Ray Peltz

Biography

Ray Peltz, a Young Communist League organizer at Chester, was arrested in January 1930 for leafleting the unemployed and convicted of "sedition" under Pennsylvania's Flynn Act at Media on 2 April 1930, drawing one to twenty years and a $5,000 fine. Holmes was described as the only political prisoner in the Huntingdon reformatory.

Case

Media County Jail
Charges: Sedition — Pennsylvania Flynn Act (distributing unemployment leaflets, Chester)
Arrested: Jan 15, 1930
Sentence: One to twenty years and a $5,000 fine. Verdict as recorded: Convicted of sedition, 2 April 1930
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Pennsylvania

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