Lionel Rolfe Literary L.A., Chronicle Books: San Francisco, 1981. 102 pp., 1923
" . . . in 1923, [Upton] Sinclair was jailed in San Pedro during a "Wobbly" strike. He was arrested while speaking to seven hundred strikers. He stood on private property, and he had written permission from the owner to be there. He was reading the Declaration of Independence and the First Amendment to the Constitution. He was held incommunicado overnight-and out of the incident came the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union . . .
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