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Bill Caudle

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Bill Caudle was a fifty-one-year-old Southern textile mill night watchman who joined the union and was jailed at Lumberton, North Carolina on charges of "carrying concealed weapons" and threatening people on the highway; the ILD defended and freed him.

Case

Charges: Carrying a concealed weapon; threats (Lumberton, North Carolina textile-union organizing)
Arrested: 1930
Sentence: Held at Lumberton until freed by the ILD.
Convicted: Jailed; freed on ILD defense