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Charles Cook (Buffalo Communist worker)

Full name:Charles Cook
Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Page 2's September 11 Buffalo dispatch individually identifies Black Communist worker Charles Cook arrested after Socialist Labor Party speakers called police when workers challenged their position on unemployment relief. J. D. Crowley is named as the SLP speaker, not the detained worker. Exact arrest day, statutory charge, disposition and full custody interval are not printed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n221-NAT-sep-13-1930-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 904. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Arrest at a disputed Socialist Labor Party election meeting; individual statutory charge unprinted.
Sentence: Actual arrest reported by September 11, 1930; outcome and complete custody unknown.