Biography
Alton Lawrence was state secretary of the Socialist Party in North Carolina. The Daily Worker of September 8, 1934, pages 1–2, reports him among thirty-four textile-strike pickets jailed at High Point on charges of forcible trespass, with bail demanded at $500 each. The report supplies no exact arrest day, sentence or release date. This organizer is kept distinct from the existing Alton Lawrence of Bessemer, Alabama, involved in a 1959 Mine-Mill affidavit prosecution; an individual identity link between those records has not been established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n216-sep-08-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 345. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
