Biography
Ben Winston was among the Black iron-ore strikers arrested by National Guard troops near the Wenona mine, according to the contemporary report.
Page 2's continuation of the Birmingham iron-ore strike report individually names Joe Evans, Ben Winston and William Holloway as Black strikers arrested by National Guard troops several miles from the Wenona mine. The paper describes armed patrols and repression after the Ishkooda picket shootings. The dispatch supplies no precise individual arrest day, count, sentence or discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 880. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
