Biography
John Anderson, known as Slim, was president of the Piedmont Textile Council and one of six Burlington mill workers convicted in December 1934 of conspiracy to dynamite the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill. Anna Mae Johnson’s April 4, 1935 account argues the prosecution targeted the United Textile Workers, describes hostile jury selection and company-paid detectives, and says the state appeal was pending. Anderson had moved from Virginia to North Carolina more than thirty-five years earlier. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n081-NAT-apr-04-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=5
