Biography
Fred McMahan was a United Textile Workers member from Gastonia, North Carolina. Arrested and sentenced on October 18, 1934, on an assault-with-dangerous-weapons charge arising from textile-strike activity, he received eighteen months on a chain gang. McMahan was held at the Union County camp in Monroe, where forced labor injured his hands and feet. In June 1935 labor supporters urged Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus to intervene for his release.
PDF page 13 prints McMahan's letter as a victim of textile-strike terror, thanking the ILD for help to him and his wife while he was in prison. The Dallas, North Carolina route address is printed as correspondence information; it is not proof of transfer to a different jail or an exact discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf
