Biography
Fred Wood organized the Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers Union during the September 1933 cranberry strike. Jamieson reports that Judge Washburn of Wareham sentenced both organizers to sixty days in Plymouth County jail for obtaining signatures and money under false pretenses after they collected initiation fees while an American Federation of Labor charter was still pending. They were released when the charter arrived. Sixty days was the imposed term; their actual confinement duration and exact endpoints are not established. Source: Stuart Jamieson, Labor Unionism in American Agriculture, Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 836 (1946), physical pages 369–370, printed pages ten lower; SHA256 ad6e201117c1a456cf2f4ff4fe09fa567bab099a1e919a7a3150ca82ed37960e
