Sugar House Prison

This was part of a broader assault on all political opposition Opponents of the war were jailed under the Espionage Act, socialist newspapers were barred from the mails, and the Immigration Act of nineteen eighteen authorized the deportation of immigrant anarchists, socialists, and labor organizers.

Joe Hill, singer, songwriter, and labor activist, was executed at the Sugar House Prison in Utah in nineteen fifteen after being framed for murder.

Frank Little, like Hill, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, was brutally lynched by Pinkertons in Butte, Montana, in nineteen seventeen.

The lesson of that period is that the attack on immigrants and the attack on left-wing politics form a single operation.