Biography
Gerald Breads, an Otis Steel employee active in union organizing and leaflet distribution, testified that armed men including Republic company policeman Dewey Jones forced him into a car after he left a Cleveland union meeting on January 13, 1937. He said he was beaten unconscious and awoke beneath the Clark Avenue Bridge. Hospital records confirmed scalp lacerations; Jones denied Breads’s allegations. The report preserves that evidentiary distinction. No judicial sentence or exact confinement duration is established. U.S. Senate, Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor, Senate Report No. 6, 76th Congress, 1st session (1939), part 2, printed 192, PDF 422.
