Clarence Hathaway

Released
Date of birth:1892
Date of death:1963
Age:71† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
Clarence Hathaway

Biography

Clarence Hathaway, a communist leader who would later edit the Daily Worker, was arrested in Chicago in October 1929 in a sedition-and-robbery frame-up connected to a Western Electric organizing drive, and released on bail with several co-defendants — a case the ILD's Labor Defender carried.

Case

Charges: Sedition; robbery (October 1929 Chicago prosecution tied to Western Electric organizing drive)
Arrested: October 1929
Sentence: Jailed and bonded awaiting trial.
Convicted: Held for trial, 1929; released on bail

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