Biography
Frank Feldt Jr. was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal prosecution alleging conspiracy to enlist volunteers for the Spanish Loyalist forces. The official investigation printed in the Congressional Record lists 2 indictments and bail of $20,000. Unable to post bail, he was committed to the federal correctional institution at Milan, Michigan, and remained confined until the charges were dismissed and the defendants released February 16. His sworn statement gives the employment alias Frank Shultz, describes blacklisting after Auto Workers Union activity, and identifies him as a Detroit-born Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer whose brother had served in Spain. He also recounts an earlier actual arrest near a cigar-factory picket line and a thirty-day suspended loitering sentence in 1934; suspended punishment is not recorded as thirty days served. The report by Henry A. Schweinhaut defended the agents, while Senator Norris and the printed defendant statements disputed their treatment; these are differing attributed accounts, not an uncontested finding about all alleged mistreatment. Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86-14.pdf#page=9; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86-14.pdf#page=12
