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Donald Wiley

Gender:Male
Era:1930s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

Donald Wiley was a United Farmers League organizer released from custody in a sedition case, according to the contemporary report.

PDF page 4 identifies United Farmers League organizer Donald Wiley and reports his release with Russell Danielson and Joe West in the sedition/breach-of-peace prosecution. Exact physical endpoints are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 897. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Joe West’s November 1934 report identifies Donald Wiley as a Penn State graduate and Union Theological Seminary student arrested for distributing the Daily Worker warning textile workers against arbitration. It places him in State Police barracks and reports the Danielson prosecution’s cases thrown out after a defense campaign. This adds the contemporary arrest and defense account without fixing unprinted physical custody dates or a measured total. Labor Defender, November 1934, printed page 20–21.

Case

Charges: Sedition and breach of peace.
Sentence: Actual release during 1934 reported; complete duration unknown.