Biography
Alex Dorsey was individually named in a Daily Worker report about the National Miners Union strike near Moundsville, West Virginia. A dispatch dated February 18, 1930 states that Alex Dorsey and Emmons Shepard had been held in jail for nearly two weeks under Redmond Act accusations of assaulting strikebreakers on the picket line, with $5,000 bail each. The paper reports that the International Labor Defense defeated the prosecution when the accuser could not substantiate the charges. The report does not establish an exact arrest, physical admission or release date, a formal acquittal verdict, or a measured complete custody total.
The Moundsville account says the ILD defeated the Redmond Act picket-line assault accusation after nearly two weeks in jail on $5,000 bail. This corroborates the existing case; nearly two weeks is not an exact fourteen-day total. Daily Worker, February 19, 1930, page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n298-NY-feb-19-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
Alex Dorsey was individually named in a Daily Worker report about the National Miners Union strike near Moundsville, West Virginia. A dispatch dated February 18, 1930 states that Alex Dorsey and Emmons Shepard had been held in jail for nearly two weeks under Redmond Act accusations of assaulting strikebreakers on the picket line, with $5,000 bail each. The paper reports that the International Labor Defense defeated the prosecution when the accuser could not substantiate the charges. The report does not establish an exact arrest, physical admission or release date, a formal acquittal verdict, or a measured complete custody total.
Nearly two weeks describes actual reported confinement, not an exact fourteen-day credit, a sentence imposed or a back-calculated admission. No race, gender, birth or death date, religion, party membership, current custody status, judge or prosecutor is inferred. The distinct paragraph about I. Hawkins and six others concerns contemplated contempt proceedings and is not assigned to this case.
