Biography
Andrew Remes was one of the eight defendants indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case, a prosecution the labor movement attacked as an attempt to revive Taft-Hartley affidavit charges that the courts had been throwing out. He was also among the Earl Browder campaign party jailed on a vagrancy charge at Terre Haute, Indiana on September 30, 1936 and released the next day with the charges dropped.
Custody record
A contemporary December 11, 1961 prisoner mailing list places Remes at the federal penitentiary in Milan, Michigan, corroborating the later prison custody already recorded separately. His eighteen-month sentence is not independently verified as eighteen months actually served.
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The October 1 Associated Press dispatch reports that Police Chief James C. Yates released Browder and four associates from Terre Haute jail that day after their arrest the preceding morning. It individually identifies novelist Waldo Frank, national election-campaign committee member Seymour Waldman, Indiana state chairman Charles Stadtfeld and party worker Andrew Remes. Browder’s vagrancy arrest at the train station prevented his planned speech. Attorney David J. Bentall announced an intention to sue the mayor and police chief for false imprisonment; that statement is not proof that a suit was filed or damages awarded. The overnight confinement is actual custody; the account does not itself measure a precise number of hours.
