Word: cryer
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission for the meeting, and denied Sinclair's " constitutional rights," charging that the novelist had forgotten his " constitutional duties." The Chief of Police declared that "If Sinclair felt that any city law invaded his rights he should have proceeded against it in a legal manner...