Biography
Arthur Buchanan was a Toledo labor activist jailed during the 1934 Auto-Lite strike. He was also arrested at an International Labor Defense demonstration at the McKinley monument demanding freedom for Ernst Thaelmann. Deputies seized him after an anti-Nazi sign was placed on the monument and took him to the county jail. The demonstrators marched to the jail and demanded his release. The sheriff freed him, and Buchanan then addressed the crowd.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 6: Sam Stein’s account describes the ILD demonstration at which Buchanan was arrested for attaching a Free Thaelmann sign to a statue in Court House Square and lodged in the county jail. Almost all six hundred demonstrators marched to the jail, and the sheriff released him within twenty minutes after a committee entered to demand freedom. This is a response interval after the demand, not the full duration from arrest; the article supplies no additional exact detention date.
The Toledo account describes an initial seizure interrupted by demonstrators, a subsequent rearrest at pistol point and confinement in Lucas County Jail. It confirms that the sheriff released him after the crowd marched to the jail and that Buchanan then addressed it. This adds circumstances to the existing Free Thaelmann demonstration case, not an additional count of arrests or a new exact discharge day. Labor Defender, September 1934, original PDF page 12. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n08-sep-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=12
The June 27, 1934 Daily Worker reported that a Toledo demonstration secured Buchanan’s release on Monday, June 25, after which he addressed the assembled workers. The source’s inconsistent county-prison wording is not used to assign a new institution, and it supplies no exact arrest or admission day.
