Hellraisers Journal: Sacramento IWW Found Guilty in Federal Court as Troops Welcomed Home to Find Nation Voted Dry

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Quote Frank Little re Guts, Wobbly by RC p208, Chg July 1917

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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 19, 1919
Sacramento, California – Fellow Workers Convicted at Federal Trial

From the San Francisco Examiner of January 17, 1919:

IWW Sacramento, Prohibition, Troops Home, SF Exmr p1, Jan 17, 1919

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Frank Little re Guts, Chicago, July 1917
Wobbly:
The Rough-and-tumble Story of an American Radical

-by Ralph Chaplin
University of Chicago Press, Jan 1, 1948
Chapter 18-War, pages 208-9
https://books.google.com/books?id=n-ygPQAACAAJ

San Francisco Examiner
(San Francisco, California)
-Jan 17, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/457704138/

See also:

Tag: IWW Federal Trial Sacramento 1918-1919
https://weneverforget.org/tag/iww-federal-trial-sacramento-1918-1919/

The Silent Defense
A Story of the Remarkable Trial of Members of
the Industrial Workers of the World
Held at Sacramento, California

– pubd af/ Jan 1919-bf/ June 21, 1920
page 17-The Silent Defense by Jean Sterling
-covers trial
page 26-Ol’ Rags An’ Bottles by Special Correspondence
-covers trial
page 37-Jury Disregards Judge’s Instructions
-re verdict
page 43- A Defendant Speaks
https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/sl_silentdefense/sl_silentdefense.pdf

Doughboys Return From the World War
-by David M. Gosoroski
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/vetsorg.htm

Prohibition in the United States, History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States#History

The U.S. Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1918. Upon being approved by a 36th state on January 16, 1919, the amendment was ratified as a part of the Constitution. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 17, 1920.

Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

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