Biography
Gil Lewis was a Trade Union Unity League organizer arrested at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July 5, 1930. The Daily Worker of July 8 reports that the arrests of Jackson, Frank Burns and Gil Lewis accompanied a police campaign to suppress Communist and union organizing. The article does not establish individual charges, sentences or release dates.
The July 3 Birmingham dispatch reports a Capitol Court meeting arrest the previous Saturday, June 28, with accusations changed to vagrancy, $300 bail each and trial scheduled July 15. It prints Barry Jackson and Gilmer Lewis. Existing July 5 entries derive from a later dispatch and may concern a repeated arrest or inconsistent reporting; the dates are not silently merged or replaced. Daily Worker, July 4, 1930, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n160-NY-jul-04-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
The March 15, 1930 Daily Worker reports Mann Act accusation in Chattanooga during March 1930 unemployment-demonstration repression. It places these accusations in Chattanooga, where seven were arrested March 6. This is distinct from Lewis’s June/July 1930 Birmingham organizing arrest. The group chronology does not explicitly fix an individual arrest or physical discharge day, and no total duration is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n319-NY-mar-15-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5 This is retained as an attributed report of accusations; individual physical detention is not established here, so no additional custody case is created.
