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L. P. Gray

Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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L. P. Gray

Biography

L. P. Gray was an Alabama leader of the United Rubber Workers Union. An individually captioned photograph reports that Gadsden police questioned him and that he was driven out of town for trying to speak to rubber workers. The report supports police detention and coercive removal during labor organizing. It supplies no precise seizure or release day, formal charge, judicial sentence or completed duration; his initials are not expanded. Labor Defender, September 1936, original PDF page 4. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1936/v12-%5B10%5Dn09-sep-1936-orig-LD.pdf#page=4

Case

Charges: Police detention and forced removal for attempting to address rubber workers; formal charge unprinted.
Sentence: L. P. Gray was an Alabama leader of the United Rubber Workers Union. An individually captioned photograph reports that Gadsden police questioned him and that he was driven out of town for trying to speak to rubber workers. The report supports police detention and coercive removal during labor organizing. It supplies no precise seizure or release day, formal charge, judicial sentence or completed duration; his initials are not expanded. Labor Defender, September 1936, original PDF page 4. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1936/v12-%5B10%5Dn09-sep-1936-orig-LD.pdf#page=4