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{{Infobox person
| name = Vincent Saint John
| image = Vincent-st-john-circa-1905.jpg
| image_size = 180px
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth year|1876}}
| birth_place = [[Newport, Kentucky]]
| death_date = {{death year and age|1929|1876}}
| death_place = [[San Francisco]]
|death_cause=
|resting_place=[[Oakland, California]]
|resting_place_coordinates=
| occupation = Miner, [[Trade union|Labor leader]]
| spouse =
| parents = Silas St. John and "Mary" Cecilia Magee
| children =
}}
'''Vincent Saint John''' (1876–1929) was an American labor leader and prominent [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]], among the most influential radical labor leaders of the 20th century.

==Biography==
Vincent St. John was born in [[Newport, Kentucky]] and was the only son of [[New York City]] native Silas St. John and Irish immigrant Marian "Mary" Cecilia Magee. He had a sister two years younger named Helen.

The family moved frequently, Silas going wherever he could to find employment as a clerk or bookkeeper. St. John worked as a [[miner]] from the age of seventeen, moving to [[Telluride, Colorado]] in 1897. In 1900 St. John became president of the [[Western Federation of Miners]]' Union Local 63 at Telluride. He led the 1901 strike in that mining camp to a successful conclusion, gaining a standard minimum wage for the miners.

He was shadowed by [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkertons]] hired by the [[Mine Operators' Association]], stalked by gunmen, had a price on his head, was arrested and charged with crimes he never committed, and was condemned by the anti-labor press as a "murderer."{{citation needed|date=December 2010}}

[[Bulkeley Wells]], a Telluride mining company president and manager who was "born to privilege... [and was] convinced laborers were beneath him," was intent upon hanging St. John. Wells conspired with others, including Pinkerton manager [[James McParland]], to accuse the head of the WFM local of conducting a "reign of terror" — and in particular, of murdering [[William J. Barney]], a mine guard who had left his post. There was one significant complicating factor: Barney was not dead, but had merely failed to notify anyone that he had left.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Corpse On Boomerang Road, Telluride's War On Labor 1899-1908 |first=MaryJoy |last=Martin |year=2004 |publisher=Western Reflections Publishing Company |isbn= 1-932738-02-9 |pages=11–24, 231 }}</ref>

On 5 November 1907 St. John was shot in [[Goldfield, Nevada]] by a conservative member of the [[Western Federation of Miners]]. The two bullets in his right wrist shattered the bone, crippling his hand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://depts.washington.edu/iww/iwwyearbook1907.shtml |title=IWW Yearbook 1907 |last=Hermida |first=Arianne |website=IWW History Project |publisher=[[University of Washington]] |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="IW_1911_03_09">{{cite news |author= |date=16 November 1907 |title=Vincent St. John Victim of Gunman |volume=1 |issue=38 |page=1 |newspaper=[[Industrial Union Bulletin]] |url=https://archive.org/details/v1n38-nov-16-1907-iub }}</ref> St. John was an organizer for the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] and in 1908–1914 he led that union as the [[List of General Secretary-Treasurers of the Industrial Workers of the World|General Secretary]]. In January 1915 he retired to a small copper claim in [[New Mexico]], but was later arrested for a May 1918 mass trial as the federal government brought sweeping indictments against 101 IWW members.<ref>{{cite book |title=Political Repression in Modern America from 1870 to 1976 |first=Robert Justin |last=Goldstein |title-link=Political Repression in Modern America |year=2001 |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |page=118 |isbn= 0-252-06964-1 }}</ref> St. John was not a member at that time, but the blanket indictments of hundreds of Wobblies brought blanket convictions, and St. John was sentenced to federal prison at [[United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth|Leavenworth]]. He was freed by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Warren G. Harding]] in 1923.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Two War Offenders Freed From Prison |journal=New York Times |year=1922 |issue=June 28 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/28/109848028.pdf |access-date=2008-10-18 }}</ref>

Vincent St. John died in [[San Francisco]] in June 1929 following a protracted illness.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69118458/iww-leader-vincent-st-john-dies-after/ "Vincent St. John, IWW Aide, Dies,"] ''San Francisco Examiner,'' vol. 130, no. 174 (June 23, 1929), p. 16.</ref> He is buried in [[Oakland, California]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Librivox author |id=12218}}

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[[Category:1876 births]]
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[[Category:American anti-war activists]]
[[Category:American trade union leaders]]
[[Category:American miners]]
[[Category:American prisoners and detainees]]
[[Category:Industrial Workers of the World leaders]]
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[[Category:Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government]]
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