Biography
Edith Saunders Miller was a Gastonia textile-strike participant and defense witness in 1929. The October 16 Daily Worker individually reports that she was arrested with about seventy others, held in jail for a week without a warrant or charge, and then released. Her testimony also describes police choking her on the picket line. The article does not establish her exact custody endpoints or a measured day total.
Daily Worker, June 14, 1929, page 1: The initial June 13 Gastonia bulletin prints Edith Sanders among those charged with assault with intent to kill. This may refer to the existing Gastonia witness Edith Saunders Miller, whose later testimony reports a week’s detention without charge, but exact identity and the apparent charge-history discrepancy remain unresolved. The candidate match is preserved here rather than asserted as a verified alias, new prosecution or duplicate profile. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n084-NY-jun-14-1929-DW-LOC.pdf
Individual detention reported in Gastonia testimony
Edith Saunders Miller was a Gastonia textile-strike participant and defense witness in 1929. The October 16 Daily Worker individually reports that she was arrested with about seventy others, held in jail for a week without a warrant or charge, and then released. Her testimony also describes police choking her on the picket line. The article does not establish her exact custody endpoints or a measured day total.
The complete report names her separately from Sophie Melvin and Vera Buch. Her own reported week is not assigned to those witnesses or to all seventy arrested people. No marital relationship to Clarence Miller, party membership, demographic category, birth date, institution, judge, sentence, exact admission or release day is inferred. The historical release does not imply current imprisonment. The reported week remains narrative rather than a manufactured seven-day calendar credit.
Daily Worker, October 16, 1929, original pages 1 and 3, defense-witness testimony. Contemporary allegations are attributed to the newspaper and witness.
Daily Worker, June 14, 1929; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
