Biography
Charles Wetherbee was arrested with National Miners Union organizer Charles Guynn during the 1933 Carbon County, Utah, coal strike. Philip Sterling’s article in the Daily Worker of April 11, 1934, page 5, places the arrests after passage of a county ordinance prohibiting gatherings of more than three people, and reports that miners then demonstrated in Price. The report does not establish Wetherbee’s individual charge, verdict, detention location, exact arrest or release date, or time served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n087-apr-11-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The October 3, 1933 Daily Worker places him among the named Helper, Utah mine-strike defendants facing criminal-syndicalism and riot proceedings. It specifies two riot accusations against Paul Crouch and identifies Harry G. Metos and Irvin Goodman as defense lawyers. The announced Thursday hearing was prospective; it establishes no new conviction, intake or discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n237-oct-03-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 343. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
The Helper dispatch dated September 6 explicitly reports Wetherbee arrested that morning on the same riot-related accusation as Guynn, during the Carbon County coal strike. Trials were announced for September 15. The individual arrest day is established; admission details, conviction, physical release and complete actual total remain unknown.