Biography
J. A. Hamilton, secretary of the Pittsburgh Miners’ Relief Conference, was arrested as a “suspicious person” on Liberty Avenue after arranging a Howat meeting. The Worker reports he was followed in a taxicab, held for 24 hours, and released when a lawyer investigated, without formal arraignment. His relief work exposing Fayette County miners’ conditions provides the reported political context. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/theworker/v04n266-mar-17-1923-Worker.pdf#page=3
