Biography
Page 1’s September 27 Concord dispatch names this Young Communist League organizer as arrested in Gastonia the previous day while distributing leaflets. The Magistrate’s Court convicted both Sylvia Crouch and Belle Weaver September 27 of violating a city ordinance and imposed suspended sentences. Page 2 records a union/ILD delegation asking Frances Perkins for their release; this demand does not supersede the more specific suspended-sentence report. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n233-sep-28-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
In a first-person account published May 20, 1936, Belle Weaver describes being jailed in Birmingham County Jail for picketing during the WPA workers' strike and subsequently getting out on bond. She describes women detained for other offenses and unnamed young male prisoners; none of those anonymous fellow prisoners is assigned an invented identity. The source supplies no exact admission, bond-release day, bail amount or complete detention length. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n121-NY-May-20-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=7
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 494. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
