Biography
Clarence Weaver was a Black Atlanta organizer and president of the Painters and Plasterers Union. DeKalb County officers arrested him on October 14, 1934, while he reported on an anti-war congress at a private meeting in Mrs. R. W. Alling’s home. Authorities held him under Georgia’s insurrection law and demanded $5,000 bail. When the grand jury refused to indict the four defendants on November 3, police immediately rearrested Weaver and held him in Fulton County on undisclosed charges. He was released at noon on November 5 after supporters posted a $1,000 bond, ending 22 days in custody.
Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2: The Atlanta report states that Judge James H. Davis denied bail to the four DeKalb County defendants on October 23, 1934, holding them for the grand jury under the insurrection law. It prints the co-defendants as Nathan Yogel, Alex Racolin, Clarence Weaver and Mrs. R. W. Alling. The shared university, union and defense context identifies the existing records; this intermediate bail refusal does not replace their independently documented November dispositions.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 1: The International Workers Order’s announcement names this defendant in the October 14, 1934 Atlanta arrests and describes a national defense committee working with the ILD, counsel retained in Atlanta, and a protest to Governor Talmadge. The organization challenged the use of membership cards and working-class literature as prosecution evidence. This defense announcement supplies an arrest day where previously absent or only month-known; its general complaint about bail does not replace independently recorded amounts or later outcomes.
