Biography
Harry Snyder was an unemployed worker prosecuted after the May 1934 relief demonstration at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration headquarters in Oklahoma City. The government charged the defendants with conspiracy to seize federal property under the federal sedition statute. Judge Edgar S. Vaught sentenced Snyder to a year and a day and a $100 fine. International Labor Defense attorneys J. O. Cook and Stanley Beldon supported the appeal.
The Daily Worker reported the filing of the Oklahoma relief-demonstration defendants’ appeal on March 4, 1935, with J. O. Cooke and Stanley Beldon named as counsel. The report described the convictions as arising from the preceding May demonstration. Its stated prison terms are imposed sentences, not newly established actual service; the appeal-funding deadlines were prospective. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n055-NAT-mar-05-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=3