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James A. Wood

Era:1930s
State:Indiana
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Biography

James A. Wood, a Communist candidate for mayor, was one of two speakers arrested when Anderson, Indiana police attacked a factory-gate antiwar meeting. Page 4’s worker correspondence describes the meeting as last Tuesday but supplies no dispatch date anchoring that weekday. Police Chief Joe Carney said he would tolerate no open-air factory-gate meetings; the Unemployment Councils and ILD protested. No charge, exact custody date, verdict, release or duration is given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n189-aug-08-1934-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 489. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Arrest for speaking at an Anderson factory-gate antiwar meeting; statutory charge unspecified.
Sentence: Arrest reported during a Tuesday meeting; exact date, physical discharge, disposition and actual duration unknown.