Biography
Nathan Yagol was a graduate student and chemistry instructor at Emory University and a member of the League for Industrial Democracy. DeKalb County officers arrested him with Mrs. R. W. Alling, Clarence Weaver, and Alexander Racolin on October 14, 1934, after Weaver reported on an anti-war congress at a private meeting. The four were held for the grand jury under Georgia’s insurrection law. Yagol was released unconditionally on November 3 when the grand jury refused to indict him, after 20 days in custody.
Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2: The Atlanta report states that Judge James H. Davis denied bail to the four DeKalb County defendants on October 23, 1934, holding them for the grand jury under the insurrection law. It prints the co-defendants as Nathan Yogel, Alex Racolin, Clarence Weaver and Mrs. R. W. Alling. The shared university, union and defense context identifies the existing records; this intermediate bail refusal does not replace their independently documented November dispositions.
Sasha Small reports a separate Illinois episode: after challenging a speaker at a January13,1938 American Patriotic Club meeting in Westville, Nathan Yagol was summoned to State Attorney O. D. Mann in Danville six days later and jailed without a disclosed charge, denied bail and held incommunicado. Sheriff Harry George later removed him from jail about11p.m., drove him to Milford across the county line, and enabled him to take a Chicago bus. The article does not print the release day or total custody. The January19 arrest date is derived from the explicitly stated six-day interval. New Masses, February22,1938, PDF page12. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1938/v26n09-feb-22-1938-NM.pdf#page=12
