Charles Auslander

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:North Carolina
Time Imprisoned:
9 Months
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Charles Auslander was a Textile Workers Union organizer convicted with Boyd Payton and Lawrence Gore in the Henderson, North Carolina strike case (1959), charged with conspiracy to dynamite the struck mills. At sentencing the judge pointed to his being an outsider — 'the union sent you' — underscoring the union's charge that the case was an anti-labor frame-up. He drew six to ten years.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to dynamite the struck Harriet-Henderson mills — condemned by the union as a frame-up
Sentenced: Jul 23, 1959
Incarcerated: Nov 3, 1960
Released: August 1961
Sentence: Six to ten years; subsequently reduced by three years. Paroled in August 1961, as reported by the Seafarers Log, August 1961, p. 15. The exact release day has not been established.
Judge: Raymond Mallard
Convicted: Yes

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