Biography
Ed Cassell was a union member and strike leader in the Treece, Kansas, mining community. In DeWitt Gilpin’s report in the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker, he recalled being in jail during the 1935 miners’ strike and receiving visits from hungry women and children. The report connects his confinement to the labor dispute, but does not give an arrest or admission day, a charge, a sentence, a physical release date or a measured duration.
Ed Cassell was a union member and strike leader in the Treece, Kansas, mining community. In DeWitt Gilpin’s report in the September 1, 1936 Daily Worker, he recalled being in jail during the 1935 miners’ strike and receiving visits from hungry women and children. The report connects his confinement to the labor dispute, but does not give an arrest or admission day, a charge, a sentence, a physical release date or a measured duration.
