Biography
Julia Jones was a Black Atlanta member of the International Workers Order. Police arrested her during the October 14, 1934 raids on private homes. Authorities accused the residents of possessing IWO membership cards and working-class literature. A Fulton County grand jury indicted Jones and seven other members for circulating insurrectionary literature under Georgia's insurrection law, and the court set $5,000 cash bail. The International Workers Order and International Labor Defense organized their defense.
Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2: The Atlanta report dates the eight Fulton County defendants’ indictment for distributing insurrectionary literature to October 23, 1934, with bail fixed at $5,000 each. This adds the indictment day to her existing October prosecution without establishing a conviction or a prison sentence.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 1: The International Workers Order’s announcement names this defendant in the October 14, 1934 Atlanta arrests and describes a national defense committee working with the ILD, counsel retained in Atlanta, and a protest to Governor Talmadge. The organization challenged the use of membership cards and working-class literature as prosecution evidence. This defense announcement supplies an arrest day where previously absent or only month-known; its general complaint about bail does not replace independently recorded amounts or later outcomes.
