Biography
Claud Clark was an organizer of the National Textile Workers Union. The Daily Worker of September 8, 1934, page 2, reports his arrest in Danville, acquittal on a vagrancy charge and release. This is a completed acquittal and release in the contemporary report, without an exact individual arrest or release day or measured detention duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n216-sep-08-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 4 prints a Danville worker correspondent’s account of attending the vagrancy trial of Clark, identified as the National Textile Workers Union organizer and former local mill worker who had previously organized for the United Textile Workers. The writer says Clark beat the case and identifies the hostile presiding judge as Carter. This places his acquittal and freedom before publication on September 4, 1934, earlier than the later September 8 report; the exact arrest and release days remain unknown. The political frame-up characterization is the correspondent’s attributed view. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n212-sep-04-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 345. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
