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William Clay

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:New York
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

William Clay was a one-armed dock worker clubbed unconscious and then charged with felonious assault in the 1936 East Coast seamen's strike, when 221 pickets were arrested in a single police attack on the New York waterfront.

Case

Arrested: May 1936
Sentence: Held on strike charges; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held for trial, 1936