Biography
Forrest Jackson was arrested in the Wisconsin farm strike at Wausau during the 1933 farm revolt. The farm revolt of 1933 — the Farmers' Holiday Association and the Communist-led United Farmers' League fighting mortgage foreclosures with penny auctions and picket lines — brought waves of arrests across the Midwest, many under state criminal-syndicalism laws.
The Wisconsin entry reports the United Farmers League organizer seized five minutes after a foreclosure sale and charged with vagrancy. It corroborates the existing event; the layout does not independently establish a precise arrest date.
The farm report identifies United Farmers League organizer Jackson as arrested for vagrancy five minutes after the Walter Fetz farm sale at Wausau, Wisconsin. The ILD took up his defense. This adds event context to his existing case without a fabricated calendar date.
