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Louis Torre

Era:1930s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

Louis Torre was arrested for distributing union leaflets at the Dejur-Amaco Radio Corporation in Shelton, after the plant moved from New York during organizing by the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America. The June 22 dispatch describes six weeks of employer threats preceding the arrest. It supplies no precise arrest day, formal charge, verdict or physical discharge. Daily Worker, June 23, 1936, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n150-NAT-jun-23-1936-DW-Q.pdf

Case

Charges: Union leaflet distribution at the Dejur-Amaco Radio plant in Shelton; formal count unprinted.
Sentence: Arrest reported by June 22, 1936; final disposition and physical custody endpoints unknown.