Biography
Carl Wiklund was a Sherman County, Nebraska farmer prosecuted with Mother Bloor and other organizers after the June 14, 1934 Loup City strike confrontation. He was active in the farm movement and stood as a United Front candidate for railway commissioner. He was convicted and sentenced to thirty days in jail and a $100 fine. Following appeals, he was confined at Loup City in 1935 despite serious injuries from a car accident. Mother Bloor appealed for his release and supporters raised money to pay the defendants' fines and court costs.
Page 3 discusses the Nebraska Supreme Court appeal heard June 5 concerning the June 14, 1934 Loup City confrontation. It names Bloor, Harry MacDonald, Portius Sell, John Squires, Carl Wicklund and Floyd Booth, and separately confirms Booth’s wife was arrested. The account says the lower-court prosecution shifted from riot to unlawful assembly when evidence showed deputies initiated violence; no new Supreme Court result is reported. It identifies Sell, the wounded son on crutches, separately from his hospitalized father Bert Sell. The newspaper criticizes the Booths’ later political loyalty, but this editorial judgment does not undo the fact of their arrests or create another prosecution. No exact jail term served is inferred from the appeal campaign. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n153-NAT-jun-27-DW-Q.pdf
The report describes the jailed Loup City farmer suffering from car-accident injuries and requests his release. The request is not proof of an accomplished release or of a completed thirty-day term. Daily Worker, October 1, 1935, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n235-NAT-oct-01-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=2
Page 1's June 28 Loup City report prints Carl Wicklund and says the prosecution had concentrated on him and Harry Smith as the state rested and the defense began. It expressly says Smith had not been arrested. This adds trial context to Wiklund's existing case, without making an allegation against Smith into a completed custody event or predicting the eventual verdict. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n155-jun-29-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 2's September 20 Loup City dispatch reports the seven defendants' district-court appeal hearing had begun the previous day, following their June 29 convictions arising from a poultry-strike solidarity meeting. The newspaper lists unlawful assembly, inciting to riot, resisting an officer, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery as the prosecution's charges collectively, without assigning every count to each person. Defense attorneys challenged the jury selection; the appeal result was still pending. It calls Booth's wife Loretta, a contemporary spelling retained here without changing the profile's identity or treating her as a separate person. This article dates the initial meeting June 13, differing from other accounts' June 14; no existing exact date is overwritten. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n227-sep-21-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Printed Carl Wicklund, he was elected Madison County Plan Holiday Association state vice-president in 1933 and led the June 13, 1934 creamery delegation. Rowley reports the initial 60-day/$50 county penalty and later 30-day/$100 district penalty; these belong to the already recorded prosecution. The male prisoners served at Loup City after unsuccessful appeal. Pages 11,26,28,30,34,36. Source: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1966LoupCity.pdf