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Rose Seiler

Released
Gender:Female
Era:1940s
State:Minnesota
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Rose Seiler

Biography

Rose Seiler was a social worker and business agent of the Minneapolis Office Workers Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. She was one of three women indicted in the 1941 Minneapolis Smith Act prosecution. Contemporary trial coverage shows her working with other acquitted defendants to support those still on trial. On November 18, 1941, the judge directed her acquittal. 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