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Lewis (Indianapolis Hayes Body speaker, 1931)

Full name:Lewis
Era:1930s
State:Indiana
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Biography

The May 22, 1931 Daily Worker reports Comrades Lewis and Ross arrested outside Indianapolis’s Hayes Body Corporation after workers cheered their speeches. The account places the speeches the morning after the May 18 reinstatement of three discharged strike leaders, indicating May 19. It identifies the speakers only by surname; no expanded identity, statutory charge, exact discharge or duration is established. Source: https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n123-NY-may-22-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1

Case

Charges: Arrest after a speech to Hayes Body workers; precise statutory charge unreported.
Sentence: Arrest following strike-support speeches, indicated May 19, 1931; final disposition and duration unknown.