Sam Reed

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Ohio
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

Sam Reed was one of the eight defendants — several of them from out of state — indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case built on the theory that union officials had conspired with Communist leaders over their non-Communist affidavits.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. via false Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavits
Sentence: Faced up to five years and a $10,000 fine Verdict as recorded: Indicted January 1957; awaiting trial
Convicted: No — pending trial

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