Biography
Fred Haug was a Cleveland labor organizer and former official of the United Electrical Workers and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Prosecutors charged him with filing false Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavits and conspiring with other union and Communist Party activists. A jury convicted him on January 29, 1958. After the appeals ended, Haug served an 18-month federal prison sentence. The court arranged for him to enter prison ten days after his wife Marie completed her term so one parent could remain with their daughter.
The April 17, 1961 National Guardian reports attorney Jack C. Day’s petition to reduce the Haug couple’s sentences. Benjamin Spock and Cleveland educational and civic figures submitted affidavits arguing that simultaneous parental imprisonment would harm their ten-year-old daughter. The article identifies the Haugs as Cleveland Ethical Society members and cites repeal of the affidavit law and their prospects on probation. The petition was a request, not proof that a reduction had been granted or that either parent had entered prison. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/national-guardian/1961-04-17-13-27-nat-guardian.pdf#page=5
