Biography
David Benson was a Southern Tenant Farmers Union organizer loaned by the Workers Alliance during the 1936 Arkansas cotton-choppers strike. Jamieson reports his arrest over an out-of-state automobile license and conviction for interfering with labor, with monetary penalties. The account calls him a prisoner and describes threats to lynch him, establishing detention but no exact intake, discharge or actual duration. This 1930s labor organizer is distinct from the younger David Benson active in the 1960s antiwar movement. Source: Stuart Jamieson, Labor Unionism in American Agriculture, Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 836 (1946), physical pages 321, printed pages ten lower; SHA256 ad6e201117c1a456cf2f4ff4fe09fa567bab099a1e919a7a3150ca82ed37960e
