Biography
Wm. Wayburn was among the workers reported arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration.
Printed as Wm. Wayburn, he was named among workers arrested when New York police broke up a Harlem welcome demonstration for Ada Wright, mother of two Scottsboro defendants, in the April 1934 Labor Defender report. The account reports that the trial was postponed twice. Exact arrest and physical release dates, statutory charges and complete custody duration remain unknown.
Sam Stein’s account names Wm. Wayburn alongside Stein, Benny Stomps and Hugh Workman as workers arrested during the police attack on a Harlem rally welcoming Ada Wright. It says crowded courtrooms were followed by two trial postponements. This source-qualified record retains the printed abbreviated given name without expanding it or selecting an arrest year from the publication date. No statutory charge, imposed sentence, jail admission or complete custody duration is supplied.
“We Welcome Mrs. Wright,” Labor Defender, April 1934, printed page 16 (PDF page 14).
