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Vanda Kaleto

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Gender:Female
Era:1920s
State:Illinois
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Vanda Kaleto

Biography

Vanda Kaleto was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.

The June 22 account describes Kaleto’s actual Friday admission and the refusal to let her seven-month-old baby Henry enter with her. A friend cared for the child. The fifteen-day punishment is nominal, and Henry is not a prisoner. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n137-NY-jun-22-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Contempt of court; violating the anti-picketing injunction
Incarcerated: Jun 18, 1926
Sentence: Serving a fifteen-day sentence in Cook County Jail in June 1926. The June 22 report dates entry to the preceding Friday and describes continued imprisonment. Exact release remains unverified.