Biography
Jack Hall was the regional director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in Hawaii, where the union had transformed the islands' plantation economy. His arrest in August 1951 was the first Smith Act arrest of a ranking union leader; convicted in 1953, he won reversal after the Yates decision.
The Fujimoto court record and the Supreme Court’s Sawyer opinion identify Jon Wiig as the judge presiding over the Hawaii Smith Act trial.
Court records name Jack Wayne Hall. Fisk reports immediate post-verdict bail; the convictions were reversed in January 1958.
Fujimoto, 107 F. Supp. 865, counsel roster; Fisk, The Fire Last Time, printed pages 3026–3027.
The April 11, 1952 Dispatcher reports that motions challenging the grand jury’s composition were heard April 7–9 before Albert Lee Stephens after J. Frank McLaughlin withdrew. Further arguments on April 28 were still prospective. This procedural phase is separate from the later trial before Jon Wiig.
