Biography
Dan Womack was among the Oklahoma City unemployed workers prosecuted under a federal statute after a 1934 demonstration demanding food and relief. Judge Edgar S. Vaught sentenced him to a year and a day and a $100 fine. International Labor Defense attorneys J. O. Cook and Stanley Beldon challenged the prosecution. The male prisoners were sent to Leavenworth, while the women were confined at Alderson.
The Daily Worker reported the filing of the Oklahoma relief-demonstration defendants’ appeal on March 4, 1935, with J. O. Cooke and Stanley Beldon named as counsel. The report described the convictions as arising from the preceding May demonstration. Its stated prison terms are imposed sentences, not newly established actual service; the appeal-funding deadlines were prospective. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n055-NAT-mar-05-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=3