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Cliff Saylors

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
Cliff Saylors

Biography

Cliff Saylors was a Southern ILD organizer active around the Gastonia textile struggle, against whom North Carolina lodged charges of murder and perjury in connection with the Aderholt case in late 1929–1930.

Case

Charges: Charged with murder and perjury.
Arrested: 1930
Sentence: Faced the Gastonia-related charges; defended by the ILD. Charges as recorded: Charged with murder and perjury in connection with the Gastonia (Aderholt) case as a Southern ILD organizer.
Convicted: Charged, 1929–30