Roy Becker

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Nebraska
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 6 Months
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Roy Becker was an Industrial Workers of the World member arrested in Omaha, Nebraska, during a November 1917 roundup. He remained in local jails for more than eighteen months before the government dropped all charges. The surviving account does not provide exact admission or discharge dates.

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Arrested: November 1917
Sentence: Held in local jails for more than eighteen months before all charges were dropped; exact admission and discharge dates remain unrecorded.
Convicted: No

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