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Fred Totherow

Era:1920s
State:North Carolina
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Biography

Fred Totherow, Southern agent of the Daily Worker and Labor Defender, was arrested December 11, 1929 and held on $100 cash bail on what a December 12 Gastonia dispatch called trumped-up driving-without-lights charges. The December 13 Daily Worker reports the arrests as suppression of Communist and union organizing. No exact discharge day or served duration is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-nat/v06-n240-NAT-dec-13-1929-DW-Q.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: Driving without lights, alleged pretext for labor repression.
Arrested: Dec 11, 1929
Sentence: Held on $100 cash bail after December 11 arrest; no final disposition or discharge established.