Biography
Leo Vernon, identified as being from Madison, Wisconsin, was jailed in Terre Haute during the 1935 labor conflict after addressing a mass meeting and criticizing the mayor, sheriff and militia. The contemporary report says Powers Hapgood was also jailed after making critical remarks about military authority while visiting Vernon. The report establishes actual confinement but gives no individual admission day, release date or completed duration. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19350830.pdf#page=4
Sources
The October issue reports Powers Hapgood’s September 5 Terre Haute arrest on vagrancy charges after protesting the arrests of Madison organizer Leo Vernon and Labor and Socialist Defense Committee secretary Aaron Gilmartin. It calls this Hapgood’s second jailing in two weeks and connects the arrests to renewed Columbia Stamping picketing under martial law. No physical release day or completed duration is supplied.
The October 1935 Labor Defender prints Lee Vernon among the arrests during the Terre Haute general-strike and martial-law conflict with Powers Hapgood and Aaron Gilmartin. Other contemporary reports identify the same Madison organizer and Terre Haute cohort as Leo Vernon. The printed Lee/Leo spelling difference is preserved in context without creating a separate person, adding a formal alias or inferring another arrest, an admission or release day or completed duration. Labor Defender, Oct 1935, printed pages 3.
