Victor Aronson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Louisiana
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Victor Aronson, an ILD organizer in New Orleans, was arrested in simultaneous late-1929 raids on seamen's headquarters in New Orleans and San Pedro and charged with "sedition" for spreading the Labor Defender and union leaflets among sailors.

Case

Charges: Charged with sedition.
Arrested: December 1929
Sentence: Held for trial on the sedition charge. Charges as recorded: Charged with sedition for distributing the Labor Defender and union leaflets to seamen at New Orleans.
Convicted: Arrested for sedition, 1929–30

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