Biography
James Johnson was arrested with Wilber Hardiman in Minneapolis in June 1933 after the leader of a mob attempting to lynch them was shot and killed. The annual review reports his actual release and an indefinitely postponed trial after the ILD announced a fight for Black jury participation. It does not establish an exact discharge day, acquittal or duration. This event-qualified identity is separate from Everett IWW defendant James Johnson and other homonyms. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n02-feb-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=20
The January 1934 Labor Defender identifies Johnson’s accusation as assault in the Minneapolis anti-lynching case, alongside Hardiman’s murder prosecution. Its closing dismissal report contains a repeated-name error, so Johnson’s final adjudication is not silently changed from the separately documented postponed trial and release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n01-jan-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=3
The report identifies Johnson as facing first-degree assault in the same mob-pursuit prosecution as Wilber Hardiman. The unnamed thirty-day work-farm defendant and expelled witnesses are not silently equated with Johnson; this is not his final verdict.